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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 281: In page 87, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(iv) any relevant language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 for a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region.”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 284: In page 88, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(f) any relevant language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 for a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 341: In page 101, line 28, after “area” to insert “safeguarding the use of Irish and viability of a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 344: In page 101, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) the provision, or facilitation of the provision, of accessible cultural infrastructure within communities, including arts spaces for creating, performing, learning and enjoying a diverse range of art forms, Irish language facilities and night venues;”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 346: In page 102, line 5, after “centres” to insert “, including in terms of culture and nightlife”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 347: In page 102, line 8, after “areas,” to insert “designation under the Gaeltacht Act 2012,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 349: In page 102, line 9, to delete “and cultural” and substitute “, cultural, Irish language, and nightlife”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 352: In page 102, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) such matters identified in paragraphs (a) to (e) specifically for the purposes of protecting the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities, including the promotion of Irish as the community language, in the case of any Gaeltacht Language Planning...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the first half of the amendment on demographic projections because this is key. The most recent round of development plans, when they were done, were obviously based in part on the housing need and demand assessment. There was the ESRI study of 2019 and then the Department's HNDA exercise with its local authority targets set below that. What individual planning authorities...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On Deputy Duffy's point about planned population, I presume that is a reference to the national planning framework in the sense that the national planning framework is trying to plan where the projected population growth is incentivised or encouraged to grow. I am asking the Minister of State to confirm it, but that would be my read of it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am saying this in defence of the use of the language, so the Minister of State might bear with me. I do not read that as the Government trying to plan population growth. Population growth projections are provided but what the national planning framework does is try to say where that should go because we do not want over-concentration of population growth in Dublin and the GDA and it has...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be brief. For absolute clarity, and it may help the Minister of State's officials at some later stage, the issue is that it is simply not appropriate - the OPR has made this case and I do not disagree - to have a blanket rule that a percentage of a development has to be X, Y or Z. That cannot be done. However, granular data on need could be built into the consent process that would...