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Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 19 to 22 and substitute the following: “(4) This Act, other than section 6 and Part 3, shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., but the Minister is saying there will be different treatment for this type of construction. My concern is we should not treat it differently. It should be integrated into housing delivery and done well. By having a process where it is not subject to public participation, it can lead to it being segregated out more and could undermine it. I make those points earnestly and want to...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: To be clear, we are discussing legislation. Legislation needs to be clear and robust. The Minister is saying we should not mind that the legislation is not clear and robust because he intends to do something. He has asked us to forget that the legislation is poorly drafted and gives him sweeping powers and full discretion in terms of what happens in respect of an appointments process...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: To be fair, in any of my dealings with him on any legislation, Deputy Nash has always endeavoured to be, and always has been, constructive. I will not accept the amendment, however, and I will explain why. First, it is very broad. The amendment proposes that "Each amendment to the Act of 2000 effected by this Act shall continue in operation for 18 months". As I said earlier, I do not...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 46: In page 10, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Provisions in respect of foreshore licensing requirements for certain surveying activities 14.The Act of 1933 is amended by the insertion of the following after section 3A: “Obligations 3AA.Notwithstanding anything in the definition of the foreshore in section 1, and the powers of the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister said he is in favour of an open, competitive and transparent system to appoint the board. That is great. However, in the next breath he said he will vote against an amendment which would make sure he has to bring forward a proposal for the establishment of an open, competitive and transparent system. The Minister is against an amendment which will ensure he does the thing he...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: As I said earlier, our party has always said that we would look favourably on a proposal which was intended to and would have the effect of accelerating and increasing the delivery of social and affordable housing. However, I have to say that when media briefings about this particular amendment emerged, there was an awful lot of confusion . There was talk of changes to zoning, ministerial...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome the clarification the Minister gave here and at the end of Second Stage concerning his intentions. None of that information was given at the briefing we had with the Department earlier in the week. We were not told this was about particular sites the Minister has in mind with regard to modern methods of construction in particular. I am not in any way opposed to what the Minister...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Steven Matthews: ...of the language has been unhelpful. I have heard many people describe it as a power grab. That is not fair at all. I do not see it as a power grab. Let us look at where we have come from and the 2000 Act, specifically the appointments procedure under section 106, whereby "The Minister shall appoint 7 ordinary members to the Board as follows". I ask the House to listen to the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in place where people can apply for new roles in a new reformed an coimisiún pleanála. We need to have that as there has to be a transition. We cannot have a cliff edge between one system and the other. The reform of the appointment process for board members to the board of An Bord Pleanála is a critical step to ensure the impartiality and transparency of the board and,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...2 to amendment No. 43: After subsection (3)(g) to insert the following: “(ga) procedures for determining whether the development is one which may have a significant effect on the environment and where public participation is therefore required, and the publication of any such determination and the information relied upon, and should include in particular determinations in...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of construction have been around for longer than most, if not all, of us in this Chamber. There has absolutely been success with modern methods of construction but there have also been some issues and problems with them, so it is important we learn from that. I want to see off-site construction work and I do not want it to be tarnished if there are construction defects at any location....

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Nevertheless, it is important to be fair and I accept the points that have been made. We want the best quality builds and I fully understand what modern methods of construction, MMCs, are. I have visited many very good producers throughout the country, as I am sure many of the Deputies will also have done. There is a significant opportunity for us to scale it up and, I hope, we can point...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Deputy Matthews for his intervention. It puts it in context. Just before he arrived, I mentioned that the existing system is not fit for purpose when it comes to appointments and it excludes people. An open and transparent competition process is open to everyone. I said that earlier but I reinforce what Deputy Matthews has said. He is correct that it should be open for everyone...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the Bill and we were very keen to get to have this brief discussion because it is a significant change to the Foreshore Act. It is important to remember that this legislation is about 90 years old, from 1933, and for all of those 90 years people were working on the basis of an understanding of the definition of the foreshore which, it subsequently transpires,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: I support the thrust of this amendment and what it wants to achieve. I did not have the benefit of being involved in the pre-legislative scrutiny at the committee but my colleague, Senator Moynihan, did. I am familiar with the panel system which has been in place to nominate potential appointees from the nominating bodies. These are organisations, like the Royal Institute of the Architects...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...been in the past. I have not heard that from the Minister at all. It seems to me that he has simply made his mind up, or his officials have helped him to make his mind up, that this is a bad idea and that this process, while it is in need of reform, is, as far as he is concerned, incapable of being reformed. He is throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater now and starting...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 43: In page 10, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Local authority own housing development 13.The Act of 2000 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 179: “179A.(1) This section applies to housing development— (a) that is carried out by, on behalf of, or jointly or in partnership with, a local authority...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Thomas Gould: We have been in here for the past two and a half years doing everything we can to be constructive and encourage the Minister and Department to deliver housing as quickly as possible. That is the way we want to come at things but I have concerns about this. To touch on a point Deputy O’Callaghan made, I come from Knocknaheeny. It is a huge regeneration project. Whether it is...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the surveys but there are approximately 38 sites in the €100 million fund that we have established. They are not in every single local authority area. Deputy Nash in particular referenced Louth, and there will be others. I speak to chief executives in every local authority every single week. I have held a series of housing summits with them, as I do regularly with their...