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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is on the planning elements. Whether we are talking about an extension or repowering of an existing plant or a new plant, in order to give guidance to the planning authorities, is it the intention to provide regulations or national planning policy statements? This will be an evolving situation because of the nature of the technology. How does the Minister plan to give that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are some ministerial amendments in that group that have not been spoken to yet. The Minister has withdrawn two but there are others.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one very quick question regarding that first one. Obviously, any new technology that might subsequently be inserted into the project has to be consistent with the terms of the original planning permission as granted.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That issue of the design envelop for which industry had made a case but, as far as I read it currently, is not in the Bill, does not overlap with this provision. This is just to allow the site works to carry on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be 5.10 p.m.? I think people want the full hour.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If my answer determines whether the Cathaoirleach gives colleagues here the extra ten minutes then-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I have questions on section 68. There is no vote on section 67.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 425: In page 110, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(x) any Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 428: In page 110, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: “(b) any part of the city which is designated as within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area or an Irish Language Network,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 429: In page 111, line 10, after "cultural" to insert ", linguistic".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 431: In page 112, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(v) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the functional area to which the development plan relates,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is what I am querying. Section 52(10)(e) reads: Following consideration of a report submitted to them under paragraph (d), the members of the planning authority or of the committee, as the case may be, may, by resolution, issue no more than one direction to the chief executive regarding the overall strategic approach to be adopted in respect of the preparation of each of the following...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not arguing against that; I am trying to get my head around it. Is the section deliberately designed with getting councillors to think at an early stage at the wider strategic level in mind? Is there a view that the process is focusing at too early a stage just on the very localised? What are the origins of this proposition?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 477: In page 127, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(3) The chief executive shall consult the elected members, prescribed bodies and the public on the content of the interim implementation report.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This question relates to section 54(4). An issue came up with the elected representatives during pre-legislative scrutiny around why only the chief executive could propose a variation during the mid-term review. That is obviously the standard procedure at present but the Department and the Minister were being asked to consider those members who were not involved in the original development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a suggestion and do not necessarily require a response, as I will come back to this on Report Stage. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 56(3)(a), in the context of the mid-term review there should be some mechanism to allow members to initiate the proposed changes. I appreciate that the Minister of State does not want to reopen the entire development plan process and,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Various reporting requirements are included in the process set out in section 59. Has there been engagement with the OPR on the workload that will be required or the staffing requirements necessary to meet the additional reporting requirements of this section?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: These sections of the Bill are really problematic. We have gone from a situation where, prior to the establishment of the Office of the Planning Regulator and the SPPRs, local authorities had a wide berth - one could argue it was too broad - with regard to development plans. We then had the SPPRs, the Office of the Planning Regulator and the process by which the planning regulator tries to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My colleague Deputy Gould has been too generous. The precise function of these sections of the Bill is to further weaken and undermine the role of local government - not just the elected members but also the executive. As Deputy O'Callaghan has said, there is no way of reading these sections other than interpreting them as taking a system which is already heavily centralised - one of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a final comment because I appreciate what the Acting Chairman said, although these are important sections. I will make a final appeal to the Minister. I know he is not going to accept the amendment but I want him to consider the following argument after this meeting and during the final passage of the Bill. We are having a similar conversation to the one this committee had in...