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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can the Minister clarify whether national planning statements are meant to address plan-making alone, or, as inferred from our reading of the text, do they stray beyond plan-making to the decision-making part of the planning process? The view of the Irish Planning Institute is that they stray into the decision-making process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a great deal to say on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that, and there is a mention of that further on in the Bill but that kind of misses the point. What I am saying is that in planning in general, in addition to social housing and particularly affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes, the key aim of the planning system should be to make sure that housing is affordable for people. If you go back to the first principles of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak on amendments Nos. 223 to 225, inclusive. The Minister of State spoke about a period of transition. How long will that take?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister of State envisage that all the section 28 guidelines will be updated? Will some of them be considerably changed? Will they be incorporated as they are in the national planning statements? Is it a range of all of that? Could some of the existing section 28 guidelines stay on the books for a number of years before there is any national planning statement replacing them?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 184: In page 65, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(g) Roinn na Gaeltachta, Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Foras na Gaeilge.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 190: In page 65, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(8) National Planning Statements and amendments, including revocations, should be subject to Joint Oireachtas Committee scrutiny.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 193: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) (i) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta and in Bailte...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 195: In page 65, line 28, after “archaeological” to insert “, historic”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 201: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 202: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of human health and well-being;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 203: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of patterns and layouts of development to better facilitate those with disabilities, to address gender considerations and to address challenges of those experiencing financial, learning, or other challenges;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 204: In page 66, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(o) promotion of patterns and layouts of development to better facilitate the Travelling community;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy to speak to amendments Nos. 204, 306 and 769 together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, that amendment is on a different theme. Amendment No. 306 is about the obligations to make and review a development plan. Effectively, it provides that the planning authority should take due account of each local authority's Traveller accommodation plan. This reflects recommendations made about this Bill by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission with regard to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister of State accept that the status quo is not working and that while there have been some successes in this regard, there has been a major failure overall in terms of Traveller accommodation? Does the Minister of State also accept that Traveller accommodation programmes are stalled and are either not progressing or are doing so at a very slow rate over several years? It is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is of value of course but there is a real need for additional supply and that is not happening, and not happening on the scale needed.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion. There are a number of elements to it and I will discuss some of them. We all know the housing targets are insufficient. The Government has asked the ESRI to do a piece of work on projecting housing need. The Government is going to base its targets on that. I have just come from a meeting of the housing committee on the planning Bill. We...