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

Eoin Ó Broin: Three questions arise. First, why is the general provision being introduced? My sense of the most recent round of county development plans is that the role of the planning regulator has been broadly positive. Not all Members of the House agree, but that is certainly my view. One of the aims of the regulator was to achieve consistency between central government planning policy and...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I think this does have an impact on the development plan process. It is designed to have an impact. Otherwise it would not be there. My concern is that I am not clear as to why it is there. I do not want us to have the substantive discussion on section 51 now because we have other amendments on other sections and we will get to it then. The specific question I asked is what is wrong with...

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 very brief comment. What the Minister of State just said at the very end was the most insightful thing. If the purpose of the engagement under section 51 is to prevent the need for directions at a later stage, it shows the intention is to have an impact. We will come back to it. It is a very important clarification and I thank the Minister of State for it. It will be helpful in...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so I am clear, are the officials telling the Minister of State it is their intention to bring forward amendments or that they are just considering it at this stage?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 53 is with regard to the making of the development plan. It is an addition on page 120, line 9. I just want to make sure I have my bearings right. The Bill currently states, “The Minister and the Office of the Planning Regulator may, in relation to a draft development plan, make such recommendations as they consider appropriate.” I am looking to insert “the...

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. There is nothing stopping the regional authorities on foot of receipt of the relevant documentation from making submissions or engaging in the process in the ordinary manner.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: He did such a good job last time.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to amendments Nos. 476 and 477 together. Amendment No. 528 seems to be in the wrong place. As it is a consequential amendment to an amendment that was discussed in another group, there is no need to discuss it again. It may be a small error on behalf of the Bills Office but, given the volume of amendments, I do not think it is the fault of that office in the slightest.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: No. It is an amendment that is consequential to a separate amendment related to this section that was discussed in an earlier group. I am pretty sure of that.

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 withdrawing it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a small error. I will press the amendment when we get to it, but we will have the discussion first.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not labour the point, given the lateness of the evening, but both these amendments are intended to strengthen the involvement of elected members, prescribed bodies and the public. In this instance, this relates to the implementation report and the timing of this report in the context of amendment No. 476, but it is also concerned with the report itself. I suspect we will be told that...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There are many phrases whose actual meaning we have yet to get to the bottom of.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Gutted as I am that the Minister of State cannot accept the amendments, let me at least make the case on the record for the spirit behind both of them. A chief executive or director of service might have a very different view on whether implementation on any individual aspect of a development plan is progressing compared to elected members, prescribed bodies or the wider public. Therefore,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There is, yes.

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. 308: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) 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 area of the development plan,”.

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. 310: In page 98, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(vi) the protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities, including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: My question relates to section 40(7). I ask for clarification on three areas of the subsection. Section 40(7)(b) reads, "The Minister may require two or more planning authorities to coordinate the development plans for their functional areas generally or in respect of specified matters and in a manner specified by the Minister." I am interested to know what the intention and scope of this...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: My preference is at least to try to put some of it on the public record. I am not trying to put the Minister of State on the spot because I know it is not his portfolio, but these are important public questions. Let us see how we go and maybe we will go into private session, if necessary. There are key parts of this, and if we can put some of the responses into the public domain, that...