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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: I move amendment No. 529: In page 154, to delete lines 26 to 28.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a general comment and then ask a question on this. When Wind Energy Ireland and other industry representatives were before the committee, and in subsequent correspondence, they raised this issue. Their argument was the existing 25-year time limitation was fine when the technology was at a less advanced stage but, increasingly, the technology is 30 years plus. They strongly...
- 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 couple of questions on the Minister's response.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to existing energy infrastructure, whether it is seeking extension or repowering, these are just some of the questions that industry representatives have raised with us. There are issues around not only the cost of seeking to extend but also the timing of it, particularly if there are delays in the decision-making process. Will the Minister provide us with a little more detail...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: A very quick-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: My question is on the planning elements. Whether we are talking about an extension or repowering of an existing plant or a new plant, in order to give guidance to the planning authorities, is it the intention to provide regulations or national planning policy statements? This will be an evolving situation because of the nature of the technology. How does the Minister plan to give that...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are some ministerial amendments in that group that have not been spoken to yet. The Minister has withdrawn two but there are others.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have one very quick question regarding that first one. Obviously, any new technology that might subsequently be inserted into the project has to be consistent with the terms of the original planning permission as granted.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That issue of the design envelop for which industry had made a case but, as far as I read it currently, is not in the Bill, does not overlap with this provision. This is just to allow the site works to carry on.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be 5.10 p.m.? I think people want the full hour.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If my answer determines whether the Cathaoirleach gives colleagues here the extra ten minutes then-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. I have questions on section 68. There is no vote on section 67.
- 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. 425: In page 110, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(x) any Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network.”.
- 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. 428: In page 110, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: “(b) any part of the city which is designated as within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area or an Irish Language Network,”.
- 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. 429: In page 111, line 10, after "cultural" to insert ", linguistic".
- 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. 431: In page 112, between lines 23 and 24, 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: That is what I am querying. Section 52(10)(e) reads: Following consideration of a report submitted to them under paragraph (d), the members of the planning authority or of the committee, as the case may be, may, by resolution, issue no more than one direction to the chief executive regarding the overall strategic approach to be adopted in respect of the preparation of each of the following...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am not arguing against that; I am trying to get my head around it. Is the section deliberately designed with getting councillors to think at an early stage at the wider strategic level in mind? Is there a view that the process is focusing at too early a stage just on the very localised? What are the origins of this proposition?