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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, it is just an pointe atá á dhéanamh agam ná go bhfuil an tAire tar éis rudaí a rá anois agus dá mba rud é go raibh sé anseo inné bheadh sé in ann iad a rá agus bheadh sé tar éis cuidiú leis an díospóireacht maidir le-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----cad gur chóir a bheith sna pleananna forbartha. Tá sé tar éis a lua ansin – rud atá go maith – go bhfuil sé ag féachaint ar chinnte a dhéanamh de go mbeidh ceantair na n-oileáin, nó na hoileáin-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----cé nach oileáin iad a thuilleadh toisc go bhfuil siad ceangailte le droichid – mar réimse ar leith i bplean forbartha. Tá loighic leis. Tacaím leis seo ach is é sin an sórt ruda a bhí muid ag caint faoi inné, sé sin, gur chóir go mbeadh na ceantair Ghaeltachta ainmnithe nó aitheanta mar cheantair ar leith sna pleananna...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There were families in a cluster of houses in Mr. Ó Beaglaoich's area. Some 120 people lived in the area and there are something like 30 living there now. They cannot get planning permission to demolish the old fothracha, the old ruins of buildings where families lived in the past, and replace them with houses. That is bizarre in this day and age in places where people are willing to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support, at the very least, some type of recognition in the definition that there is a specific need for Gaeltacht settlement patterns to be recognised. By "recognised", I do not mean that they should be given any additional funding or recognition over and above anything else, unless the document is subsequently amended. It is saying that when we are addressing this issue in other...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try not to rehash everything that the previous two Deputies mentioned. The Minister, when he addressed this, failed to grasp the fact that this is not an extra burden. This is to ensure consistency across the board. Most of it is to ensure that existing functions, whether State or local authority, are given the proper attention when developing, whether it is a development plan,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: All we are asking, in that amendment, is to consider language plans. We are not asking to adjudicate on them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a logic to this group of amendments. As the Minister stated, they basically relate to key bodies that are responsible for promoting the rights of Irish speakers and the language planning process in particular. They do not just relate to Údarás na Gaeltachta, which has a limited role in the Gaeltacht area, but also to Foras na Gaeilge, which is a State body and a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister responsible is also mentioned in the amendments. Is he or she just taken as a given?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a brief query on amendment No. 555. Is there a reason it cannot be accepted? Is it that it is superfluous? It is slightly different from the others. It proposes to insert "Gaeltacht Service Town within a Gaeltacht area" after Gaeltacht in section 73(5)(a)(vii). At the moment the section reads that a notice shall be sent "where the settlement or the part of a settlement to which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it a ribbon development?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 3: In page 27, line 30, to delete “ “Chief Planning Commissioner” ” and substitute “ “Príomh Choimisinéir Pleanála” ”. It would be much easier if we changed the rules of the House in order that with amendments such as these, one could put a single amendment at the start containing the phrase...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can understand what the Minister of State says. We have all been under pressure to deal with amendments and to address them here today given the rush to ensure that our planning legislation is intact and correct. Some of these amendments are quite simple and they are not contentious. They are in line with the legislation. I could understand if the Minister of State said there is no need...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If I were to be consistent, I would have to allow the Minister of State the time to go back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel because that is what I have done on other occasions. In some cases, a Minister or Minister of State has come back quite favourably disposed. In other cases, though, they have not done so on Report Stage. In the Seanad, then, the Bill would be changed again....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can understand if the Minister of State needs to go to the principal aistritheoir in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is the man who is in charge of grammar for all of us who struggle with grammar, and it does not matter in what language. He can tell the Minister of State if my version of the different titles is correct, such as that of the "Príomh Choimisinéir Pleanála",...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to this issue on Report Stage if the Minister of State does not. It will be early enough on Report Stage. There is no extra cost involved in doing it. This is the luxury of it. A whole new planning system is being set up, so we can get it right from the get-go. We did not get it right with Irish Water. It is now Uisce Éireann. That organisation has had to change...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. 1003 will insert a definition on page 481. I have no problem with it but I find it odd that we would put a definition in this Chapter rather than at the start of the Bill where the other definitions are. The section in question also deals with special conservation areas, but the definition for that is at the start of the Bill with all the other definitions. Why does it appear...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is section 303. Sections 300 to 302, inclusive, however, all deal with architectural conservation areas, but the definition for "architectural conservation area" appears at the start, on page 27. I am not going to labour the point but it is odd that it is the only definition that will appear in Chapter 2.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 6: In page 27, line 37, to delete “Commission” and substitute “Coimisiún”.