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

Eoin Ó Broin: Was the last one the Minister of State referred to amendment No. 293 or amendment No. 292?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Chair.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 231: In page 68, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(c) the language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 for Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns, and Irish Language Networks.”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 239: In page 70, to delete lines 5 and 6 and substitue the following: “(k) the preservation, protection and restoration of the environment and its amenities and elements, including the archaeological, historical, architectural and natural heritage of the region;”. Most of these amendments are stand-alone rather than grouped. I will speak to amendment...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am less enthusiastic than Deputy O'Callaghan might be. Section 27(1)(k) refers to "the preservation and protection of the environment and its amenities, including ... archaeological, architectural and natural heritage". Restoration does not only apply to natural heritage, although I fully support Deputies O'Callaghan and Boyd Barrett in what they said. It also applies to archaeological...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is that they are all separate issues. I sill speak to them briefly. Amendment No. 241 is pretty straightforward. It refers to the same subsection (k) and seeks to insert to insert “, cultural, linguistic” after “architectural”. It was tabled by my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh. As we have had similar discussions at earlier stages, I will not...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I might move on to the next amendment. This amendment was also drafted by my colleague Deputy Ó Snodaigh. The 2009 expert group report contained a recommendation that historic landscapes should be covered by the Historic Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023. As the Minister of State will know, it was not included in that Act. Deputy Ó Snodaigh and others...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On a small supplementary point, I assume the expert group, being a group of experts, had some sense of how to address the issues of definitions and types, so it is not beyond the realms of possibility. I will not labour the point but will press the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will provide a practical example to support the amendment. This is always about the tension that exists between the need for economic development, growth and physical development and, on the other hand, meeting the health and well-being needs of a community. For example, there was an interesting paper circulated last week by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service mapping new...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not be minded to withdraw on that basis because they are two separate, although interrelated, propositions. If something is not explicit in the plan-making process of the regional spatial and economic strategy, then the very high-level, overarching objectives of the NPF might not necessarily be translated and applied at that regional level in the most appropriate manner. I suspect...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not labour the point but I am interested in hearing his formal response to this amendment to at least have it on the record.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State did not explain why he does not like amendment No. 271. He just told us what it would do. He did not explain the problem with it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If I understand it correctly, the real issue here is that a regional assembly will have four weeks to publish its strategy. I presume that four weeks is to allow the assembly to edit the document, ensure it is composited, etc. The difficulty is that if people want to challenge a spatial strategy - let us hope they do not, but let us imagine that there is some very compelling legal reason...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Could the Minister of State clarify the point he made before he mentioned newspapers about the timeframe of six weeks from the date?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What page is that?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it eight weeks from-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----the end of that six week period or from publication?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: And that is potentially two weeks before the strategy-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----is given effect.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. That clears that up.