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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to respond because the Minister was asking about what I am proposing here with reference to the principle of the accessibility impact statement and the threshold for that. Obviously, with these amendments there is a threshold of linking that to the threshold for an environmental impact assessment. I would have no issue if the Minister was proposing a different threshold or set of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the wording of section 46(2)(a) new? Is the Minister saying it is not in the existing legislation?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So it is just a repeat of what is in the existing legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: According to the HSE, we have 1,128 disabled people under the age of 65 years who living in nursing homes and whose housing needs are not being met. These amendments are seeking to address this in terms of planning. Effectively, the response is that we have some wording in the Bill, which has been in legislation since 2000, regarding objectives relating to public places. That is the level...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So that I am clear on this, this is not a new form of exemption. They are currently exempted under the existing Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is nothing new in this provision. It is simply transitional.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There are the same obligations in terms of any derogation required in terms of impact on habitats or nesting birds or the birds directive.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is no change in any of that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: All of the obligations-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: All of the obligations that someone has under the habitats directive or anything else still apply. The fact that it is exempted-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The fact that it is exempted development does not exempt it from any of those obligations. They still apply to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 188, a ministerial amendment, states, “Any guidelines under section 52 of the Act of 2000 in force immediately before the repeal of that section by section 6, shall continue in force until the first issuing of a National Planning Statement after the passing of this Act.” There will be no issue, therefore, with them staying in force. Once the national planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that guaranteed legislatively?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: What do the section 52 guidelines relate to?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is not at all how I read amendment No. 188. It refers to the “first issuing” of a national planning statement. If, therefore, a national planning statement does not include protections for built heritage, they will just cease, under this legislation. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My core point relates to what the implications of this could be-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The guidelines will be gone once the national planning statement is issued. Could that mean, in the context of the protection of built heritage, that there will be a weakening?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State might clarify why that cannot be the case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is not what the amendment says.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is one of the points I raised. The amendment would suggest otherwise.