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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1475. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the serious shortage of GP availability and GP appointment availability in the Dublin mid-west area; the steps that are being taken to increase GP provision in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12825/24]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us say a local authority has something in its development plan that the regulator decides in good faith is in contravention with a national planning policy statement, on foot of which decision a draft direction is issued. That draft direction would be sent out for consultation. If some of the bodies in the consultation take views contrary to that of the planning regulator, the latter...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Thank you - page 637.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State never does that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There is one question the Minister of State has not answered. In respect of the regulations that will underpin possible prescribed bodies for these procedures, and particularly with regard to amendments Nos. 507 and 514 on the development plans-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am talking about amendments Nos. 507 and 514 on development plans and amendments Nos. 561 and 567 on area plans. Is it the Minister of State's understanding that those regulations will allow for some element of public participation, particularly given that members of the public will have participated in the plans themselves? Does the Minister of State anticipate that there will be a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I know, but I am clarifying the record.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 287: In page 88, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(d) any relevant language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 for a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region,".

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 289: In page 89, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(iv) any relevant language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 for a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network within the region,”.

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 technical question.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but it relates to an important part of the section that we have not discussed. It is really a technical question. We have not discussed section 36(4)(i), which concerns the suspension of the effect of the regional spatial and economic strategy. Is the suspension automatic in terms of the content of the Office of the Planning Regulator's draft direction or is there a role for the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It concerns a very significant additional power, so it is important that we have clarification.

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 seeking to have a discussion on it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On section 36(4)(i) and the power for the suspension, as I read it, the Office of the Planning Regulator is the body that would issue the suspension notification. It issues its draft direction, which relates to provision a particular provision, section or the entire plan. The regulator requests its suspension until such time as the process we have been discussing in respect of subsequence...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: But the power to request the suspension of the relevant provision of the plan comes from the OPR.