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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: I move amendment No. 410: In page 108, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(k) areas subject to Special Amenity Area Orders and the identification of areas where such orders would be beneficial for the community or biodiversity objectives".

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. 412: In page 108, between lines 25 and 26, and insert the following: “(l) the integrity of a site, area, monument, structure, place, landscape or feature described within this subsection within its surrounding context,”.

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. 413: In page 108, between lines 25 and 26, and insert the following: “(l) public access to a site, area, monument, structure, place, landscape or feature described within this subsection, including rights of way,”.

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. 419: In page 109, line 33, after “riverbank” to insert “, monument”.

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. 421: In page 109, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(h) regulating, restricting, expediting, controlling or promoting the use of any land or structure, in particular in a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network for the purpose of providing residential housing to Irish speakers or to grow the use of...

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. 423: In page 110, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(iii) all Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns or Irish Language Networks within the functional area of the development plan,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have no problem with that. The Chair is meant to be flexible if people have other arrangements.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a number of general questions on these amendments, which I will follow with some specific questions. One of the issues that concerns me is that notwithstanding the details set out on the draft consultation process, it is not clear who will be consulted. In some of the amendments, whether to section 36 or later sections, certain organisations are listed and then there is a catch-all...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On the regulations the Minister of State spoke of, will there be one set of prescribed bodies with some catch-all caveat the OPR can dip into or will there be separate lists depending on the category of issue at hand? The second version could be one set of regulations that say, "For these types of issues, here are the organisations we definitely want you to consult and if you want to include...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to be crystal clear. I believe the Minister of State has answered half of my next question. All the documentation is made public, so when the OPR produces its report with its summaries and links to the longer submissions, everything is made available.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would mean that if something were subject to litigation and the argument were that the National Transport Authority, for example, had made a submission to the OPR but the OPR, in its summary, had excluded X, Y and Z, the full submission would be available and could be taken into account.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not unlike what we were asking the Minister of State to do with the national planning framework. In this regard, we were saying we would like the Department to produce summaries of people's submissions and make them available to the public, as opposed to a general summary document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is my point. My only experience of this is the development plan process. That is very helpful because one can go through the summaries and then dip in and out as an elected member but also as a member of the public.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, and if it were to be extended to the NPF-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It would be helpful if, in his response to my further questions, the Minister of State made it very clear whether the discussion we are having on the regional spatial and economic strategies is equally relevant to the development plans and the area plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. In that case, let us tease out the issue of a possible conflict of interest, because I believe that is what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan is getting at and because it is quite important. Let us use a real, live case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope that if the Minister of State lets me finish, he will be clear. Let us take a real, live case, namely the controversy over the out-of-town retail park in Cork county. It is useful to discuss this and I am not making a judgment on either side. I realise it is not a matter of a regional spatial and economic strategy but it highlights a particular issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not asking the Minister of State to speak about it but my question on conflicts of interest may be best illustrated by my doing so. The Minister of State may speak just to the general matter of conflicts of interest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me hypothesise, so. Let us imagine that, in another local authority-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a quick supplementary question. Just so we are clear on the import of amendment No. 294, this does not give the summary of the submissions any greater strength, or that is the only thing that has to be considered.