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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy is right. We should try to try to get that clarification as soon as possible. Was Deputy O'Callaghan indicating there?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Just to be clear, we are looking for clarification on where "maritime site" or "maritime area" is used and the reasons for that. Under amendment No. 11, we are asking if there is a definition of "on, in, over or under". I think we can move on. Did Deputy O'Callaghan say he had other questions?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are still on the grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Public notification and confirmation are not required.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Go ahead, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 8, 9, 53, 85, 87, 90, 98, 598, 603, 619, 623, 647, 683, 709, 890, 921, 1036, 1040, 111, 1127, 1128, 1132 and 1133 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin has indicated he also wishes to speak to amendment No. 709.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does Deputy Ó Broin want to continue with the rest of the amendments or do any other members wish to speak? For the information of Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, we are taking these as a group. They are related to Irish.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I get the Deputy's point but that is the way they are set out for me by the Bills Office, which proposed to take these as a grouping and discuss them together. I just want to logically make sure they are all spoken to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: The way we had set about this was to take Deputy O'Callaghan's amendments first because No. 8 is one of his and they are all grouped together. I am quite happy to come back to No. 9 and to discuss them all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: On Deputy Ó Broin's suggestion, we will go back to No. 9 and try to put some chronological order on the discussion. I appreciate the point Deputy Ó Cathasaigh made that it is all to do with as Gaeilge but not all to do with the same issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will give it another ten minutes because we went over until 6.10 p.m. I said we would do a two-hour slot on this, so we will give it another ten minutes. We will have to return to this tomorrow anyway, but we can try to clear as much as we can.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am sorry to have to cut the Deputy short on this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: It is 8.09 p.m. now, so that is our session finished. On a housekeeping matter, amendment No. 1129, which was spoken to, is not in that grouping rather it is in a grouping with amendment No. 30. We will come back to that. It is with amendment No. 30, therefore, amendment No. 1129 will get two outings. We will continue tomorrow at 10 a.m. I do not know which committee room we will be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I note that we will suspend the meeting at 1.50 p.m. to allow Deputies to attend the Chamber and we will resume again at 3 p.m. Today, the Select Committee on Transport and Communications meets for consideration of the 2024 Revised Estimates for public services, Vote 31 – transport. I remind members that the committee has no role in approving the Estimates; rather it is an ongoing...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. It has been agreed that the meeting will suspend at 1.50 p.m.. We are only four minutes off now so rather than bring in a member, I propose to suspend now and resume at 3 p.m if that is agreeable to everyone.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I have the first speaking slot and I propose that each slot be ten minutes to make up for the suspension so that we can finish in a timely manner. In the Minister's opening statement and the briefing document we received earlier, there was mention of the road traffic measures Bill 2023 and, in particular, that an aspect of road safety be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I agree with the Minster. We want the legislation brought in as soon as possible so we will support him on that. On the increased use of public transport, it is welcome to see the real leap back post Covid. I have no doubt that usage is a result of the continued investments in public transport. Connecting Ireland, in particular, has been quite successful. A total of 65 new or improved...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am glad the Minister mentioned fare reductions because I fully support them. It is another reason we have seen quite a return to public transport. Admittedly, it was a cost-of-living issue that the Government addressed by bringing in the 50% reduction, as it is now, for people under 26, and 20% for everyone else. In relation to the NTA's work on the fare strategy recently, it is really...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I understand the complexity and difficulty in trying to set fares. Where it falls down is where one tries to set these concentric circles. Dublin and the greater Dublin area did not develop in a grid like New York city or something like that. We have population centres such as Skerries, which is just outside that concentric circle, Maynooth, which has just slipped into that concentric...