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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What special area was it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To add to that, the section our amendment No. 410 deals with states: "A planning authority shall prepare a strategy for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of the natural and built heritage and landscape in the functional area". It continues, "The strategy shall include objectives for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of", and then it gives a long...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody is disputing that there could, under certain circumstances, be a conflict between a decision to identify or establish a special amenity area order and biodiversity objectives. That could potentially happen. This is the point about the wording of our amendment. If an area is subject to a special amenity area order, why would we not want to conserve it? One would assume that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I read it, and pardon me if I do not understand - I am sure the Minister of State is struggling as well - under section 166, which is the "Effect of expiration of duration of permission": Subject to subsection (3), a permission granted under this Part shall, on the expiration of its duration, cease to have effect as regards— (a) the entire development, where the development to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not expire. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to fully understand it. It does not expire.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If it expires, the permission no longer has effect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, retention is about something that is already built.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just to underline that point, the ministerial amendment states that in relation to retention permission for any unauthorised pre-existing structure which has got permission, no time limit is imposed on it because it is pre-existing. That is what the Minister of State said to us earlier.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to a situation, however, where that permission included permission to do something that had not yet been done. It is rolled in with the existing structure. They now have a permission, which has no expiration date, to do things that have not yet been done. It is an open-ended permission.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the two are rolled into one, however, and this is the point on which people were seeking clarity-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the commission rolls the two together, it will roll the two together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that within the retention permission?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the "and to" bit that is the point.

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be grossly unfair, but it is looking like it may well be the case, that the public and workers who did absolutely nothing wrong will pick up the tab for the scandals that emerged in RTÉ. 8 o’clock They will be collateral damage for the lack of governance and the bad behaviour of some people. That appear to be a likely outcome for hundreds of jobs, not those of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [2807/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome what the Taoiseach outlined. Following on from that, what some of the second level students said is that sometimes, teachers handpicked people to talk to inspectors but there was not engagement with the mass of students and there should be a bit more engagement on the ground. The other point they raised related to facilities in a lot of schools, which vary widely from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just think we should listen when school students speak because they were passionate about education but they just felt the current system was not fit for purpose.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to listen to the school students about what they think is necessary to make it work for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a very interesting encounter with the Irish Second-Level Students Union yesterday. I spent the afternoon discussing with students from secondary schools up and down the country the issues they are concerned about. It highlighted for me the urgency of radical reform of our secondary school system and a few points should be borne in mind in that regard. One of the things they said was...