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- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: I will address the Opposition amendments Nos. 26 and 27 together, as tabled by Senators O'Sullivan and Boyhan, respectively. Both amendments have the same overall objective of the initiation, at the behest of the elected representative of the council, of a process for the variation of the local development plan or local area plan by way of a resolution adopted at a council meeting. We have...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: I have two ears.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: The Senator is hoping that will be the case.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: It only happened five minutes ago.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: We might need to revisit the other amendments.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: I am listening to the Senator.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: I am listening.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: Where does the Senator come from?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: We had a lengthy discussion on this issue previously when various amendments were proposed. I feel a little sympathy for Senator Warfield because he is unable to get in on the action officially. The amendments are pretty much the same, but were dealt with in the Houses at an earlier stage. We went through them and voted on them.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: I am just saying it is fair to recognise that everyone has a problem with this. Some people want a final vote on it. We debated this difficulty at length a few months ago. I was here for that debate. I do not have time to go back over the entire conversation. I ask people to think seriously about how they intend to vote on this proposal. Senator Coffey mentioned a few issues that I...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: They are separate. Some Senators have discussed matters that are not relevant to this legislation. They are separate. The capital plan part - the expenditure of €116 billion, and probably a few more billion on top of it - is led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I ask Senators to trust me when I say that Department spends its money wisely. It adheres to all the...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: There are two separate issues at stake here. I remember sitting in the Dáil while Brian Cowen launched the national development plan somewhere else down the road. I understand the annoyance of Senators about that. They need to get over it because it is a separate issue. The issue of the launch is not the same as the planning issue we are talking about. The launch is not the same as...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: That is not true.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: The Senator's colleagues were there.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: For clarification, I clearly stated they were launched together and they are linked. I am referring here to the legislation, which deals with the national planning framework and is not related to the capital plan. I ask the Senator not to mix up my words. This is a serious issue. They are not linked in this legislation, which is what I said to the Senator at the start. I cannot be...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: The Senator said that.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: We were all here last year too.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: That is not a problem. The Houses are open.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: Senator Grace O'Sullivan's amendment relates to section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which currently provides that planning authorities shall have regard to guidelines issued by the Minister in the performance of all their planning functions such as determining planning applications, enforcement and forward planning. The amendment proposes to insert a new section 28(1D) which...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Damien English: The Senator proposes putting this process in place for essential interventions but some of them do not require that lengthy public consultation. We have shown, on the record, that when it was needed we have done that but on the need to intervene quickly, which the Minister has the ability to do at present, that would change if we were to include the Senator's amendment. I am not sure it...