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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: Yes, but the two of them are related. I kind of get it is the horse before the cart. I have to disagree with the Minister of State in the context that the technology is definitely there because I have used it. The embodied carbon of a building can be quantified. The technology is there and it is being used. When that comes, will there be a case for the next Government or whichever...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I understand. Amendment No. 612 is one of my amendments. I get that. However, the second one is about infrastructure. It is on a larger scale. A developer, an architect or an engineer does not have the bigger picture that planners have.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: Sure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: On amendment No. 614, I accept what the Minister of State said in that there is reference within development plans to cover that. I agree that building control is a place where measurement should happen. However, in the context of the State strategising going forward, architects and engineers strategise for the site they have and comply with whatever is put in front of them, but they do not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: For thousands of householders and organisations like the Construction Defects Alliance and the Apartment Owners Network, which have campaigned for years, the announcement in January for the interim fire redress scheme brought immense relief. Like many households that are facing water ingress issues and structural damage, we await the legislation and full redress scheme on which I would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: My amendment proposes the inclusion of one word, "enhancement", which is something we, as a State, are already doing. We enhance our landscape, ecology and biodiversity through reforestation, wetting of bogs, etc. In the case of any architectural building or heritage, the State affords itself or the owner of the building the capacity to enhance it. That is not conservation, which is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: It is a national planning framework and there are six provisions that the framework maker has to make. Five of the six are as follows: the identification of strategic development, which is expansion; indication of national infrastructure, which is expansion; the promotion of sustainable settlements, which is expansion; land-sea co-ordination and development, which is expansion; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the situation at a school (details supplied); and when this unacceptable situation will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10633/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is fair enough. The language is that this is to be a strategy, so it is a statement of intent by the maker of the housing development strategy. It is an intent and does not specify that anyone has to do anything. The Bill uses language to say the State should be cognisant of the whole-life carbon emissions of the strategy when it is looking to prioritise compact urban development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 149: In page 61, line 19, after “conservation” to insert “and enhancement”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I am happy to withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 229: In page 68, line 28, to delete “and". I will withdraw this amendment, as I would like to table it again.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: This is in some way similar to the national planning framework where there were six provisions. Five of those were progressive and expansive in the context of the economy and the urban construct. I agree with that and support that we expand and move forward. However, the environmental side in this legislation is again about preserving and protecting, which means to stand still. If...

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

Francis Noel Duffy: We need to be mindful that the Government is moving forward with everything else in the Bill and the environment is standing still. By preserving it as opposed to some element of enhancement, it is effectively regressive.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 240: In page 70, line 5, to delete “and protection” and substitute “, protection and enhancement”. I will withdraw the amendment with a view to bringing it back on Report Stage.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: I move amendment No. 340: In page 101, line 28, after “rural” to insert “and urban”.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: We have one of the lowest, as far as I am aware, housing occupancy levels in Europe. To add this would assist in the types of units that are being built and the strategy for it. I would like to hear the response so I can comment on it.

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

Francis Noel Duffy: The first three words of section 44(1)(a) are "distributes planned population". Who has planned the population? Where is that coming from? I would like the Minister of State to answer the question of who will plan the population. It is very strange language to state that somebody has planned the population and we will work off that basis. It does not make any sense at all, language wise....