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

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody back. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan just finished a point to which the Minister of State was going to respond.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I was asking Deputy O'Callaghan which amendments of his in this grouping we had not addressed yet. Do Deputies Ó Broin or Ó Snodaigh wish to come in?

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

Steven Matthews: Are members okay to do it that way?

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

Steven Matthews: Absolutely. The Minister of State can go through the next grouping.

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

Steven Matthews: It is indeed. The Minister of State may go ahead.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Snódaigh. I will bring in Deputy Ó Broin, followed by Deputy O'Callaghan, and then the Minister of State.

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

Steven Matthews: I signed the letter so I can be blamed.

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

Steven Matthews: The Minister of State might wish to respond. Before he does I inform members that we will finish at 1 p.m. I also propose that the committee will run from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Is that agreed? Agreed. Is it likely that I will be able to put the question on amendment No. 8 before 1 p.m., as I need to organise cover for my sections coming up?

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

Steven Matthews: I am factoring that in. We may go to 1.05 p.m. if there is a vote.

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

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan. We had just dealt with amendment No. 8 before we suspended. We now move to amendment No. 9.

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

Steven Matthews: As amendment No. 14 is in my name, I will vacate the Chair and I ask Deputy Higgins to take over.

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

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 14: In page 30, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “ “hierarchy of road users model” means design of roads and public spaces that prioritises in the following order, people walking and wheeling, people cycling, people using public transport, people using taxi and shared transport, people using private cars;”. This group of...

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. He is correct that we have seen the hierarchy of road users model included in many Government publications for many years. It is a recognised hierarchy. I have sought to introduce a definition of it and to apply it right the way down through the hierarchy of our planning system. My amendments, including amendment No. 144 and others, relate to the NPF,...

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

Steven Matthews: It is happening through the Department of Transport.

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

Steven Matthews: The DMURS is a good document and our plans generally adhere to it. However, if we look at some of the consents given for housing estates, there is talk about permeability but those estates do not necessarily provide optimum permeability. I have an amendment on this issue. Permeability to allow people to get to a sports field or shops might be included but not necessarily to get to...

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

Steven Matthews: Certain transport providers in the country claim their model is sustainable and will become more so with the production of certain types of fuels, etc. Sustainable transport has to reduce emissions. That is the only way transport can be sustainable.