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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Olympic Games (30 May 2024)

Steven Matthews: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding Departmental support that has been made available in relation to Irish participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (30 May 2024)

Steven Matthews: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding adjustments to Part 4 and Part 5 of the Electoral Reform Act 2022, based on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and targeting of political advertising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23627/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Briefly, before I speak to amendment No. 1, it is important to set out clearly how we got to this stage, because there is a narrative out there that in some way this Bill is being rushed through. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Chair of the Oireachtas housing committee, I want to state that we spent probably two and a half years working on this Bill. I think we have been...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will speak to amendments Nos. 29 and 144, both of which are in my name. Amendment No. 29 proposes to include in section 2 a statement to the effect that the national biodiversity action plan has the meaning assigned to it by the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2023. The Minister's amendment No. 118, in Part 3, probably covers that adequately. I am merely seeking clarification. The Minister's...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: This amendment is in the name of my party colleague Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. As a result, I am able to speak to it. I will move it if Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is not here when the time comes. Amendment No. 39 provides a definition of "sustainable development". We have had various takes over many years on people's interpretation of what sustainable development involves. In the context...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 29: In page 34, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “ “National Biodiversity Plan” has the meaning assigned to it by the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2023;” Based on the Minister's amendment, No. 118, I will withdraw.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will speak briefly to amendments Nos. 60 and 61. I support the spirit of what Deputies Ó Broin and Ó Snodaigh are trying to do with these amendments. The amendments would introduce uncertainty, but I do support the Deputies because we had a discussion on Committee Stage about how we determine what is a significant impact and whether something may have a significant impact....

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: This is the grouping starting with amendment No. 70. Amendment No. 73 is mine. I agree with Deputy Ó Broin that we had a very long discussion on what is referred to as section 5 in the current Act. We went into it in quite some detail. In fact, I think it is a part of the Act that many were not that familiar with and our discussions brought a good level of interest to bear on it. My...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will speak to amendment No. 113, 123 and amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 220. Amendment No. 113 is the definition based on work that my colleague Deputy Ó Cathasaigh had done in respect of community gardens and allotments. I welcome the Minister's introduction of that definition in amendment No. 357. Amendments Nos. 354 to 357, inclusive, cover the matter quite well. The purpose...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Minister gave Kerry a load of buses as well, did he not?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: It was going well.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister's response on the transport infrastructure. It was merely put in just to address any confusion that might arise and maybe to make that a simpler definition. With regard to the way it was set out, alphabetically or otherwise, it looks at road use in a very sensible way and if investment is required for other road users we will look at it that way. If it is investment...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Now, Deputy Healy-Rae-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Connecting Ireland has been a massive success in Kerry and-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I believe I have seen the Deputy tweet about it. I saw him welcoming greenways and investment in footpaths and buses and all sorts of green investment going on in County Kerry. Any why not. It should go on all across the county. I am sure the Deputy welcomes it as much as every other rural Deputy does as well. I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. The Minister did not get a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 113: In page 62, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: " "community garden" means an area of land made available to members of the community for collective gardening purposes for personal or local consumption of produce and is operated otherwise than with a view to making profit, to be prescribed in regulations as "community garden" meaning an area of land...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 123: In page 64, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: " "transport infrastructure" is infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians, public transport and road traffic;". This is unnecessary, based on what the Minister has said.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I have two minutes rather than seven minutes because I spoke earlier on these amendments, but I will take only two minutes anyway.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I spoke to this grouping of amendments, because I spoke to my amendment No. 137, and now I am coming back in for my two-minute contribution.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will take only two minutes anyway.