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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have been there plenty, do not worry.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the reduction of SET hours for schools, her Department is fully compliant with the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9886/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish legislation underpinning the scheme for repairs to defective Celtic Tiger era apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 7 February 2024, when the ICT portal will be opened for core funding applications; if guidance will be issued with on the use of the portal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 277. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the significant number of asylum seekers who are forced into homelessness with no other option but rough sleeping after arriving in Ireland, if he has considered using alternative existing buildings (details supplied) that could be used as temporary accommodation instead; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if emergency grant funding is available to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9453/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: This question relates a lot to section 12, not just specifically to my amendments. Yesterday, I asked the Minister of State about section 12 and the issues around licensing, utilities, and the digging up of roads and the damage that is done. Reinstatements are done, but after the temporary reinstatement, when the permanent reinstatement is done, often that is defective a year or two later....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking if subsection 12(8)(b)(i), where it refers to "overground electronic communications infrastructure"-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not include overground-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Where is that?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Subsection 12(1) relates to the definition of "network operator", not a definition of a public electronic communications network. Surely there is a difference between subsection 12(8)(b)(1), "overground electronic communications infrastructure" - that is a different phrase - and the explanation of what a network operator is in subsection 12(1)(a), which refers to "a public electronic...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am concerned because an advertising structure with a Wi-Fi spot is overground and electronic. If the Wi-Fi is communications, surely that fits into this overground electronic communications infrastructure.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Should there not be a reference, then, in subsection 12(8)(b) stating that-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay, because the reference is in paragraph (a). I understand.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The issue is that sometimes a good engineer manages to capture this and sometimes he or she does not. We are dealing with the legislation that allows for the licences and the opening of the roads. From what I can see, this is costing the public millions in proper repairs when substandard repairs have been done and let go over time, or when the local engineers or whatever feel they do not...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I would take a different view on that. If there is a good road surface, and if a utility or a company gets a licence under this Bill to dig it up and reinstate it, the cost for proper reinstatement of that surface should not fall with the public or the local authority. I appreciate there are provisions in the Roads Act, but this section of the Bill relates specifically to the granting of...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but if these legislative provisions are no different from the ones at the moment, and it is definitely my strong view that the ones at the moment are not working sufficiently to protect the public interest, that wording about conditions, "including conditions relating to location and design", does not specify this area. If a utility or a company keeps getting licences, opening up roads...