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

Cian O'Callaghan: In that case, that is not different from what we understand to be substitute consent under the 2000 Act.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There were wider breaches than just those relating to EIAs and AAs, were there not?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Nothing else, therefore, will fall under retrospective consent.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The answer I got there was a complete change to that which I got earlier, when it was said the definition did include more. The issue I was raising related to the fact the definition of substitute consent has been completely insufficient, so I would have thought the Bill was a chance to update that and to cover other breaches of EU law and directives. Clearly, however, from what has been...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay, so that is being looked at separately altogether-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: -----with different legislation altogether, potentially.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Our wording states: "Areas subject to Special Amenity Area Orders and the identification of areas where such orders would be beneficial for the community or biodiversity objectives." I fail to see how that is a rationale for not accepting the amendment.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [5296/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [5295/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will push for an extension of the flexible EU fiscal rules introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to allow for greater investment in the construction of new social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the dwellings purchased where the 10% stamp duty was paid, broken down by month of payment since the increased stamp duty was introduced, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6134/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date in implementing the National Landscape Strategy 2015-2025, broken down by the six stated objectives and 18 stated actions, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority planners sanctioned by his Department since 2020, broken down by year and local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6328/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new planners sanctioned by his Department for An Bord Pleanála since 2020, broken down by year and local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6329/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed referendum on the right to housing; if the referendum will take place in the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6330/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether the new model of local area employment service has been effective (details supplied); whether the method of referral from the Department, meaning the service cannot work with walk-in clients, has been effective; the duration of employment for the service to obtain funding; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the situation at a health centre (details supplied) whereby children’s developmental screenings cannot proceed in the community due to a lack of nurses at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6148/24]