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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Rather than delaying further, I might return to this on Report Stage. I will have a further look at it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that, although interestingly there was some recent public commentary about the difficulty the board has in retaining staff. While additional sanction has been provided, the board has not filled all of those positions. My question, however, is slightly different. Section 59(1) states: "Where the Minister issues or amends a National Planning Statement, each planning authority shall,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a final comment separate to my overall objection to this section, which I will not repeat because we already discussed it. I wish to put the following on record. About half of the new planning staff the board has employed are coming from local authorities, which means that even with the additional sanctions for local authorities, they are not getting the same net increase they would...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, is the Minister saying that currently when section 28 guidelines are issued, a planning authority has to report within two months in the same way as is required? I ask because this seems to be a new procedure.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The reporting procedure within two months does not exist at present.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 503: In page 143, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(v) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the functional area to which the development plan relates.”
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 506: In page 144, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(h) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the functional area to which the development plan relates,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 509: In page 144, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(e) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the functional area to which the development plan relates,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 512: In page 145, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(v) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the functional area to which the development plan relates,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Section 61(2)(a) states: "The Minister may, at any time, request the Office of the Planning Regulator to carry out an assessment of a development plan." If we look at the overall architecture of the new relationship between the regulator and the development plan process, we can see that the regulator will be brought in at the very beginning before the elected members. The regulator has a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Correct me if I wrong, but if there was a variation of the plan, surely the OPR would already be involved in the process because that is already set out? I said this at a session at which the Minister may not have been present. The work the OPR has done in respect of the current round of development plans has been very positive. It has an even more involved role. However, I am not so sure...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There is a level of overreach in the provisions relating to the OPR. This subsection is part of that. First, it is entirely unnecessary but it will also cause problems further down the line. I hear the Minister's argument very clearly, but I certainly do not accept it. I will still be opposing this section.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We are both talking to the same amendment.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Which section?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 516: In page 148, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(viii) the board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any relevant Language Planning Officer.”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 525: In page 153, line 9, to delete “Government” and substitute “Oireachtas”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 526: In page 153, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister shall lay a proposed direction in respect of subsection (1) before both Houses of the Oireachtas, together with any screening determinations and assessments made in respect of a Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment, and the proposed direction shall not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 527: In page 153, line 20, to delete “issuing an urgent direction” and substitute “proposing a draft urgent direction”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 528: In page 154, to delete lines 11 to 13.