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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 87: In page 47, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(iii) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 90: In page 48, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(v) the opinion of the Minister as to whether the development is likely to have an impact on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area.”. I press the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91: In page 48, line 28, to delete “a relevant” and substitute “any”. I press the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I press the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was one other scenario. I appreciate the Minister of State was not here. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, was here. The scenario, which is a real-life case, relates to a section 5 declaration being submitted to two local authorities beside each other for a development that ran across the boundary of two local authorities. I am pretty sure it was submitted by a utility company. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister of State saying that if a public utility company which has a development, and in this case the wiring and cabling had already been laid, puts in a section 5 declaration and it gets two different answers, if it is not happy with one of those answers it should appeal it to the board?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What happens if the board upholds the original decision? If the board likes the decision I appeal, I am hardly going to appeal the other one, which is in my interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that it has already happened, so one would have to apply for retention. That is what I am trying to tease out. Without labouring the point, all I am saying is that I think it is an issue that needs some consideration given that it has actually happened.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. What I might do is email the officials with the case in point, as that would be instructive.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We eagerly await them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 104: To delete subsection (2) and substitute the following: “(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 5 of the Act of 2000, however such appeal be effected, the Act of 2000 shall continue to apply and have effect in relation to a request or appeal under that section made before such repeal, and any declaration made under Section 5 of the Act...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two additional points. I support Deputy Matthews. Most of us will have in our constituencies old telephone boxes that are no longer used as telephone boxes. Either the structure remains and it is very difficult to get it removed or we have seen a more recent phenomenon of the company that owns the structure not installing a new phone in it or sometimes removing the phones, but...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 112, 113 and 114 are on separate issues. I will deal with those.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the things that confused me about this section and took me a while to get my head round, particularly in relation to the discussion we had on a previous section on Environmental Protection Agency licences versus planning permissions, was the question of why we have these as licences rather than permissions. I am interested in finding that out. I can get my head around an exempted...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that and I could read that part of the Bill myself. If this is related purely to cables, one might think that there is a licensing process for the laying of the cables. However, there are physical structures here. We have had conversations about some of those earlier. Why do we license those rather than grant them permission. What is the advantage of a licence versus a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Bus stops and bus shelters require planning permission.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are structures. For example, when representatives of Bus Éireann and the National Transport Authority were before the committee they talked about a process whereby they had to apply for planning permission for bus stops on public roads. Why do we license some and grant planning permission for others?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a more streamlined process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That makes some sense.