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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is the case with accessibility and all of these other issues. The fact is that we are sliding backwards on public rights of way. I spoke to the Minister of State two years and a half years ago about the vision for what public rights of way could be, even from a green perspective. Our amendments refer to access to spaces of natural beauty. It is not just about that; it is about access...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: These are essential things, heritage sites and all of the rest, but there is nothing in there around that. What we are seeing is a backward step whereby it might become harder. We know that under this Government's watch a very stupid mistake was nearly made whereby all of the rights of way by use would have expired. Now we are seeing a kind of chipping away whereby some of the public...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know I cannot come in again but I would just say that I was clear in supporting the national planning framework but not the national planning statement.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 116: In page 105, to delete lines 10 to 16 and substitute the following: “(5) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a development plan shall have effect for a period of 6 years beginning on the date on which it comes into effect under subsection (17) of section 55. (b) Where the Minister, at the request of the elected council of a planning authority, certifies in...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 118: In page 110, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(b) supports implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 119: In page 112, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) a specific strategy for Traveller accommodation prepared in direct consultation with Travellers;”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 120: In page 117, line 24, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 121: In page 118, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) A development management statement shall include objectives for the preservation and enhancement of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, cemetery, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 122: In page 118, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) A development management statement shall include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, cemetery, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way shall be...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 126: In page 121, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(3) In the process of consultation under subsection (1), where an incompatibility between either the National Planning Framework or the National Marine Planning Framework and a National Planning Policies and Measures is identified, consistency of a development plan with the National Planning...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 131: In paragraph (e), to delete all words from “, but” down to and including “strategy”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 131: In paragraph (e), after “particular strategy” to insert “, except in circumstances where a majority of the members of a planning authority agree by resolution that a particular strategy requires more than one direction as a matter of public interest”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 143: In page 154, to delete lines 20 to 25 and substitute the following: “(b) is materially inconsistent with— (i) the National Planning Framework; (ii) where the planning authority is a coastal planning authority, the National Marine Planning Framework, or (iii) the relevant regional spatial and economic strategy.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 145: In page 155, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(16) Where a planning authority demonstrates that the development plan or proposed variation to such development plan is consistent with the National Planning Framework and the National Maritime Planning Framework and to be brought into alignment with a National Planning Statement would lead...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No.146: In page 159, line 18, to delete “The Minister may, subject to this section,” and substitute “The Minister may, subject to this section and the approval of both Houses of the Oireachtas,”

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 188 in this grouping is a technical misplacement on my part, so I will be withdrawing that. Crucially, all of our amendments in this section, including amendments Nos. 163 and 164, are attempts to remove liquid natural gas, LNG, infrastructure from the definition of strategic gas infrastructure development that is in the Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies. I will come back in on the next grouping.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Over the past year or two, I have had engagement with environmental NGOs, activists, Green Party members and others on the importance of banning liquefied natural gas, LNG. Throughout this Oireachtas term, there has been discussion about how we can ensure LNG, which is inclusive of fracked gas, is banned. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has always been vague and equivocal in his language...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry but the Minister of State used the phrase "policy-based". What does that mean?