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

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not understand what it does.

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. 377: In page 105, line 12, after “facilities,” to insert “cultural spaces,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 47 is about the obligation to prepare a strategy relating to environment and climate change in the context of a development plan. Is this a transposition of what is currently in the planning and development Acts? It is something new? If some of it is new, will the Minister of State outline what is new? I may have a few supplementary questions after that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The legislation to which it refers is the 2015 Act.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister of State or the Chair remind me of the date of the most recent climate Act?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it that the references may need to be updated or they will need to be updated? This is the point I wanted to raise.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We had some discussion but-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I know there were amendments, which is fine, but they were some weeks ago. As soon as possible, almost all members of the committee would like to know if it is the intention of the Government to amend this section. It seems to me that there could not be a section that does not have the most up-to-date Act and, indeed, the climate action plans that arise from that. The sooner clarification...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Given all of that other work in terms of international European agreements and domestic legislation, etc., that the provisions here, which is the central provision for the development plan with respect to climate change, is broadly the same as the existing Act and does not include any updated legislative policy or plan developments since 2015 is concerning. While other areas of the Bill have...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We look forward to seeing the amendments if they arise.

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. 399: In page 107, line 37, after “authority” to insert “, and of public access to that heritage”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be very helpful.

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 briefly to the first group of the Minister of State's and then, depending on the replies, not unlike Deputy O'Callaghan, I might want to spend a little more time on individual amendments. Amendment No. 399 is very straightforward. It is to ensure that public access to heritage be within the remit of the conservation strategy. That is the relevant section to which the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----that group in the same way as I have done. Then we can go back and forth on individual amendments, as needed.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There are amendments Nos. 404 and 408. I apologise - I skipped amendment No. 409. That just seeks to insert a place of "cultural, mythological" interest.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is in the Minister of State's group. I am speaking to his grouping.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I am speaking to the subgroupings of our amendments that the Minister of State has just read out to us-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----to stay consistent with the order. Amendment No. 409 is included, as are amendments Nos. 412 and 430. They are all in the Minister of State's subgrouping.