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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will wait a moment for the officials to come back in. Everybody will be delighted to hear that we will finish the meeting at 8 p.m. Tomorrow our scheduled meeting is from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and it is proposed to take a break at some point during that meeting for 20 minutes or so. We will meet from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, as agreed. We are debating section 34 and Deputy Ó Broin...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin is seeking clarification on section 35.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. We will invite the officials back in to seek those clarifications for the Deputy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Callaghan wished to ask a question on that as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: As it is now just after 8 p.m., I will adjourn the select the committee until 1 p.m. tomorrow, when we will commence with amendment No. 285 in the name of the Minister and the grouping of the Minister's amendments. I thank everybody for their co-operation and I thank the Minister of State for his attendance.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 353, 359, 363 to 365, inclusive, 367, 370, 372, 379, 381 and 484 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will deal with amendment No. 353. I have not read everybody else's amendments-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes. We will take amendment No. 353 by itself and then maybe we will go to amendment No. 364. I might take my grouping together then because I will have to vacate the Chair for that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suppose it is based on CSO data and estimated population targets.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Following Deputy Boyd Barrett and the Minister of State, I will move on because we have had a discussion on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I will move on in this grouping. The next two amendments are in my name, amendments Nos. 359 and 363. Without discussing them, I am wondering if the Minister of State could read the note on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am precluded from speaking on my own amendments or moving them from the Chair. However, I will ask the Minister for State for clarification on where the requirement of education services, by which I mean schools, both primary and secondary, third level and further education, is included and in which strategy, which might be more suitable if I were to withdraw and reintroduce the amendments...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Not necessarily sports and recreation, because I accept the point that some of that can be private and may not be public, and one always zones land for community and educational use. I am wondering where within any of these strategies is a requirement on the provision of educational services. We seem to cater for many services and community facilities, but I do not see education. It may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. I understand there is good interaction between-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay, I was just looking for clarification, but Deputy Ó Broin now wants to come in on the matter the Minister of State raised.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are not dealing with that amendment. We are dealing with amendments Nos. 359 and 363. Based on what the Minister has read, we can move on from those two amendments. It may be helpful to the Minister of State to know that amendment No. 364 and my amendments Nos. 365 and 367 are similar so I will be withdrawing-----