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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No more so than this road and that road, or whatever else. The national planning framework does not have to be so specific as to which road or development will happen. This would be a guideline to influence planners, the local authority and the development plans at that level. If they take it into account that there is a need to address language planning, the statement would be set out...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 192 to 194, inclusive,208 and 209 relate to the national planning statements. I still believe that in this primary legislation - because that is what it is going to be - there needs to be clear statements at every level on what the role of planning is. It needs to be as much as it would for all of the other issues listed in that planning statement. I am still of the view...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Part of the reason for this proposal is the frustration of those who have tried to use Irish with the system. This came up in the Irish language committee when we were discussing planning in Gaeltacht areas. One of the questions we raised with the chief executive officers of the different councils that came before us was how many people in their planning sections had Irish. If I am in the...

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear An Bille Craolacháin (Formhaoirsiú ar Chuntais RTÉ) (Leasú) 2024. I thank the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, Deputy Stanley, and committee members, Deputies Munster and Brady, for co-signing this Bill alongside my colleagues beside me. Is Bille simplí é. De ghnáth,...

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The amendments relate to what the planning authority or commission, as the case may be, shall have regard to when performing its functions. The two amendments are very simple. Amendment No. 599 seeks to insert, after "protected structure", the words "or its integrity within the surrounding context". This is important when considering protected structures because they do not sit by...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 599 and 600 relate to obligations on the planning authorities and the commission to have regard to certain matters. The matter we are trying to introduce here is to ensure that the context in which a protected structure exists, and not just the structure itself, is also taken into account when the planning authorities and commission are making any findings or reviewing...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The context is important and that is why we are trying to include it, in what is a very short, six-word amendment that reads "its integrity within the surrounding context". These are two reasonable amendments that I hope the Minister will accept.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To come back to the other points, the Minister was talking about amendment No. 55, the previous amendment. Perhaps I did not make the point as well as I should have. The specific provision in the legislation proposed has to do with matters to which the planning authority and commission shall have regard. It is not about pre-empting the decision of the planning authority or the commission....

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would the Minister consider inserting "the sole reason" into the wording when he is changing it? At the moment it is just "reasons". I know he is changing the wording.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is gnáthchruinniú i seomra coiste 4 i dTithe an Oireachtais é seo, cé go bhfuil gné fhíorúil ar Microsoft Teams ag baint leis. Tá ceithre chomhalta i láthair sa seomra coiste nó ar líne, Teachta Dála agus Seanadóir san áireamh. Tá an Teachta Marc Ó Cathasaigh agus na Seanadóirí Lorraine Clifford-Lee...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim míle maith ag Niamh Ní Churnáin. Sula gcasfaidh mé ar TG4 agus Alan Esslemont, is féidir an dá thrá a fhreastal mar tá an Teachta Ó Muineacháin anseo agus tá sé ar an scáileán ag an am céanna. Tá sé sin go hiontach agus beidh mé súil leis an seic uaidh amach anseo. Iarraim anois ar Alan...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas as an gcur i láthair sin. An bhfuil aon cheisteanna dár n-aíonna?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá brón orm a bheith ag cur isteach anseo ach ó thaobh an chórais leis na fotheidil a dhéanamh as Béarla, an úsáidtear AI chun é sin a dhéanamh nó an mbíonn duine á gclóscríobh? Maidir le han-chuid stuif anois, tá sé uathoibríoch toisc go bhfuil an oiread sin daoine ag caint Béarla agus...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I think the Deputy is discussing amendment No. 107.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Most of these amendments relate to something similar. The one amendment in Sinn Féin's name in this grouping is amendment No. 108. Perhaps the Minister of State wants to finish off on this one and come back to amendment No. 108, which has to do with the Irish language and signage.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes, so if we finish off on the broader stuff about the-----

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can come in now but it would take away from the conversations.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was, just to agree with Deputy Matthews about the clutter and the poles. I live in Crumlin, along the canal. Works have been done along every single junction and the authorities have put up extra poles, just to make sure. Where there were four poles, there are eight poles now. That makes it difficult for cyclists and people pushing buggies. On top of that, in these locations, there is...