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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is in the Minister of State's group. I am speaking to his grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I am speaking to the subgroupings of our amendments that the Minister of State has just read out to us-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----to stay consistent with the order. Amendment No. 409 is included, as are amendments Nos. 412 and 430. They are all in the Minister of State's subgrouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State dealt with amendment No. 413. It is consequential.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Two out of six might not be so bad. If only that rate could be sustained.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That will be required. Okay. Let me go through four quick responses. With respect to the public access issues, the response is poor in the following sense. The amendments do not call for unrestricted, unlimited, unfettered access. By trying to provide public access, it is clearly reasonable for that access to be determined in terms of safety and nothing damaging or impinging on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but if the Minister of State is saying that it will be included-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----then I am more than happy to withdraw amendment No. 404. I am unclear on the real rationale for his argument not to extend this to battle sites and cultural and mythological interests so I ask him to expand on that. I would be willing to withdraw amendment No. 412 if, again, the Minister of State were to be very clear that if and when he addresses the principal concern of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by her Department to ensure a place in a reading school is available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final outturn of expenditure for Vote 34 for 2023, with a breakdown by each sub heading and individual spending programme within each sub head, in tabular from. [13298/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the recently announced extension of child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education or with a disability does not include a retrospective element; if this will be reconsidered given the impact on families who have been out of payment in the interim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 291. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out into the impact of the cessation of child developmental checks under the national healthy childhood programme for children in areas of Dublin mid-west (details supplied) due to staff shortages in the public health nurse service; if so, if the report will be made available; and if not, if a review will be considered at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a process through which parents who have been unable to access developmental checks for their children due to staff shortages in their area, can access an appointment in an alternative location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13380/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 392: In page 106, after line 39, to insert the following: “Obligation to prepare Cultural Development Strategy 47. A planning authority shall in consultation with An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the National Cultural Institutions, Fís Éireann, locally-based cultural institutions as well as local artists, arts workers, arts businesses and communities,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy for the Minister of State to go through-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the cultural and mythological aspect?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it covered explicitly or implicitly? I apologise but I am not very familiar with that Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The same formula of words, therefore, is used in that Act as in these amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Battle sites are, but what about cultural and mythological interests?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to move on to the next part of the grouping.