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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: I move amendment No. 326: In page 100, line 23, after “facilities,” to insert “Irish language facilities,”

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will give it further consideration before deciding.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am far less generous on this point than Deputy O'Callaghan has been. Charlestown in Dublin is the obvious example. If I had been an elected representative for Finglas at the time Fingal County Council decided to develop Charlestown, I would have seen how "insofar as is practicable" becomes technically a problem. One of the consequences of the Charlestown development was its really...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We also need to know who decides what it means.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On the basis of what the Minister of State said, it seems to me that it is the local authorities themselves who decide whether it is practicable or not in each given instance.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. The Cork situation might not apply in this instance but Charlestown would, in a sense that it is conceivable that within the confines of Fingal County Council, Charlestown had a certain planning logic but in the assessment of what is proper planning with the two planning authorities contiguous, it would not be seen as such. There is nothing other than a local authority might just...

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 final point on this. In my local authority, we have a boundary with five other local authorities - the three other Dublin local authorities, and Kildare and Meath. If, at the very same time that planning officials in South Dublin County Council are doing their development plan, and there is also a requirement under this section that "insofar as is practicable" they try to...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The real issue here is not material alterations to the plan that might arise. It is to do with implementation of the stuff that is already agreed, which is a fundamentally different point. It is not so much about providing an opportunity for an amendment to the plan because that can happen through the procedures. It is to try to find a mechanism to track implementation. This is probably a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Where there is a potential dispute between the two, it is to have that independently determined by the courts.

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. 327: In page 100, line 23, after “facilities,” to insert “cultural spaces,”

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. 328: In page 100, line 23, after “facilities,” to insert “night venues,”.

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. 329: In page 100, line 24, after “for” to insert “cultural,”.

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. 332: In page 100, line 36, after “area” to insert “, including to the use of Irish and viability of any relevant Gaeltacht community,”.

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 query on this section.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: My query relates to section 41(8), which states: Where a development plan as made or varied departs from any relevant guidance contained in National Planning Policy Guidance, the written statement referred to in subsection (2) shall include a statement of the reasons why, in the opinion of the planning authority— (a) the departure is not detrimental to the proper planning and...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It seems what the Minister of State is actually saying is that it is a matter for the local authorities in question to decide whether the co-ordination is practicable or not. It seems that this is about whether they have the resources, wherewithal or whatever at the time, and that the local authority decides if it can or cannot.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If the Minister is not satisfied, they will ask the OPR for a second independent opinion and will potentially be informed by that as to whether or not to issue a direction.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have had part of this discussion before. The Minister of State will know that, in 2019, the expert group on Traveller accommodation was published. This was a hugely significant report. The Housing Agency and Professor Michelle Norris had undertaken a very detailed study of the Traveller accommodation programmes which had been published by the Department and the Housing Agency some years...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I mentioned recommendations 7, 9 and 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, in fairness to the Minister of State, he has given us much more detailed responses than we got the last day.