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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. 382: In page 106, line 19, after "provision" to insert ", full accessibility".

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. 383: In page 106, line 21, 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. 384: In page 106, line 22, after “of” to insert “creators, performers, artists and audience, with particular regard for the full inclusion of”.

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. 386: In page 106, line 23, after “protection” to insert “and promotion”.

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. 387: In page 106, line 24, after “areas” to insert “and Irish Language Networks”.

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. 388: In page 106, line 24, to delete “in the” and substitute “in particular, but also throughout the entire”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a number of general questions on these amendments, which I will follow with some specific questions. One of the issues that concerns me is that notwithstanding the details set out on the draft consultation process, it is not clear who will be consulted. In some of the amendments, whether to section 36 or later sections, certain organisations are listed and then there is a catch-all...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the regulations the Minister of State spoke of, will there be one set of prescribed bodies with some catch-all caveat the OPR can dip into or will there be separate lists depending on the category of issue at hand? The second version could be one set of regulations that say, "For these types of issues, here are the organisations we definitely want you to consult and if you want to include...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to be crystal clear. I believe the Minister of State has answered half of my next question. All the documentation is made public, so when the OPR produces its report with its summaries and links to the longer submissions, everything is made available.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would mean that if something were subject to litigation and the argument were that the National Transport Authority, for example, had made a submission to the OPR but the OPR, in its summary, had excluded X, Y and Z, the full submission would be available and could be taken into account.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not unlike what we were asking the Minister of State to do with the national planning framework. In this regard, we were saying we would like the Department to produce summaries of people's submissions and make them available to the public, as opposed to a general summary document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is my point. My only experience of this is the development plan process. That is very helpful because one can go through the summaries and then dip in and out as an elected member but also as a member of the public.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and if it were to be extended to the NPF-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be helpful if, in his response to my further questions, the Minister of State made it very clear whether the discussion we are having on the regional spatial and economic strategies is equally relevant to the development plans and the area plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. In that case, let us tease out the issue of a possible conflict of interest, because I believe that is what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan is getting at and because it is quite important. Let us use a real, live case.