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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief, as the point has been made. Do we have the maximising of the potential of regions and then they are subsequently screened against a notion of sustainability or do we start by saying all development has to be sustainable development and the two are not separate? My reason for saying that is because how it often works is we have developers saying what they want and then we...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a clear difference of opinion so there is not much point in labouring it. There is a disagreement here, though. I will just give one example. We got a policy passed in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown that there had to be green roofs on everything. It was a People Before Profit proposal. It was overturned by a decision of central government, which was able to override -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to remember the details but there was some legislation that was brought in centrally, which essentially gave the Minister the right to override a decision that had been made by the council regarding green roofs so it went out the window. That demonstrates the tension that exists between the imperative to maximise the potential for development, which is what the section 19(2)(a)...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a question as much as anything else. Maybe I missed the explanation. Why is it a building control standard and not a planning one? I do not get that. I believe concrete accounts for about 8% of global emissions. If it was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of CO2 after the United States and China. I do not understand how it is a building control issue to decide on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what avenues are open to a person (details supplied) who has to apply for a passport if the copies of their birth certificate, name change and gender recognition certificate are notarised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9767/24]

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation in RTÉ at this point is an absolute shambles. It has been going on for nine months since the revelations about the extraordinary, large, secret payments to Ryan Tubridy on top of the obscene salary he received and, indeed, the salaries many other top presenters received, and many executives were receiving obscene salaries. There was outrage, there were hearings, there was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the legislative programme, I understand the priority for the spring term is the childcare (amendment) Bill, which is to revise the Child Care Act 1991 to reflect best practice developments in the sphere of child welfare and protection services that have evolved in the 30 years since enactment and in light of the constitutional recognition of children as individual rights holders. It will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [7881/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the avenues a person with a three-month visa who has arrived in Ireland from Gaza can now use to apply for citizenship in Ireland whose close family member holds a work visa permit in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what avenues are available for a person (details supplied) to access missing information from their early life report which they recently received from Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9487/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill as currently written refers, in Section 19(2)(e) to "providing for land-sea interactions and securing coordination with the National Marine Planning Framework" but not with the actual plans. The framework and the plans are not the same thing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes and the framework is high level. The devil is in the detail in terms of planning and development, particularly when we are talking about the interaction of things that would happen on the sea and on the land. To my mind, this is to ensure not just that it is in co-ordination with things at a high level but also in co-ordination with the actual plans which need to be legally compliant.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are things that the national planning framework has to make provision for. In the Bill that is before us, the Minister says that it has to make provision for the conservation of the environment and its amenities, including landscape, ecology and biodiversity, as well as archaeological, architectural and natural heritage. Our amendment proposes to add that we should include landscape...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 154 is a good amendment in its reference to "promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations". I will give the Minister one example that is pertinent and becoming very apparent all over the place. Although development is increasing, there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On conservation, I am surprised the Minister would not accept that and I do not really get the point about where does it end. There has been a step change in the recognition that it is not just about preventing the further destruction of biodiversity and the environment, but that we have to proactively restore nature. Young people get that very strongly. We should be proactive in putting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am a signatory to this amendment as well. I find it both odd and inconsistent that we have those one would expect to be included in a public consultation like members of the Oireachtas, regional assemblies, local authorities, the Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority but then the section also includes members of the public. Why not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know why he would not put it on a statutory footing.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our amendment does not exclude the addition of new bodies. To be clear, the Minister has said he is not accepting this amendment because he does not want to exclude other new bodies. Our amendment does not exclude new bodies from being listed in regulations. The Minister's wording excludes a requirement to consult the prescribed bodies that are listed. I looked at the same list and I...