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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: Again, I am completely unclear on this. Subsection (3) seeks to restrict the rights of people to challenge in court the eligibility of an application solely to four categories. I do not understand why-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: A person who makes an application will not challenge their own eligibility.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The owner could challenge the eligibility. I am not disputing why the owner of the land should be allowed to do so. What I do not understand is why those are the only categories allowed.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course not, because you are inserting a section here preventing them from doing so. If this section were not here-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a new provision. Therefore, today, there is no legal prohibition under planning law to prevent somebody else from challenging the eligibility. The Minister of State is inserting it. I am not arguing against it. However, I cannot form a view of it until I know why you are doing it. Has there been, for example, legal case history of other parties not included in these four...

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. 341: In page 101, line 28, after “area” to insert “safeguarding the use of Irish and viability of a 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) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 344: In page 101, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) the provision, or facilitation of the provision, of accessible cultural infrastructure within communities, including arts spaces for creating, performing, learning and enjoying a diverse range of art forms, Irish language facilities and night venues;”.

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. 346: In page 102, line 5, after “centres” to insert “, including in terms of culture and nightlife”.

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. 347: In page 102, line 8, after “areas,” to insert “designation under the Gaeltacht Act 2012,”.

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. 349: In page 102, line 9, to delete “and cultural” and substitute “, cultural, Irish language, and nightlife”.

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. 352: In page 102, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) such matters identified in paragraphs (a) to (e) specifically for the purposes of protecting the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities, including the promotion of Irish as the community language, in the case of any Gaeltacht Language Planning...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the first half of the amendment on demographic projections because this is key. The most recent round of development plans, when they were done, were obviously based in part on the housing need and demand assessment. There was the ESRI study of 2019 and then the Department's HNDA exercise with its local authority targets set below that. What individual planning authorities...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On Deputy Duffy's point about planned population, I presume that is a reference to the national planning framework in the sense that the national planning framework is trying to plan where the projected population growth is incentivised or encouraged to grow. I am asking the Minister of State to confirm it, but that would be my read of it.