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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: This is on a related matter. In January of this year, the committee received a submission from the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly. It and other assemblies were formally involved in pre-legislative scrutiny. It made the case for the full reinstatement of what is currently section 25A of the Planning and Development Act, which in part relates to the Chair's amendment. In fact, not...

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. 241: In page 70, line 6, after “architectural” to insert “, cultural, linguistic”.

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. 242: In page 70, line 7, after “Gaeltacht” to insert “, the use of Irish within Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns and Irish Language Networks, their economic, social, and infrastructural development in coordination with Údarás na Gaeltachta or Foras na Gaeilge as appropriate, and support for the implementation of...

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. 243: In page 70, line 9, after “landscapes,” to insert “including historic landscapes,”.

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. 246: In page 70, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(v) sets out proposals for supporting the work of Údarás na Gaeltachta to augment the economic performance of Gaeltacht communities and ensure employment opportunities for Irish speakers within the Gaeltacht;”.

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. 248: In page 71, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(iv) 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 relevant to the area of the regional spatial and economic strategy;”.

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. 249: In page 71, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(s) a strategy relating to cultural matters, including consideration of requirements for cultural spaces.”.

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. 252: In page 72, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “(12) (a) Where a part of the metropolitan area of any city or a key town falls within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, or is designated as a Gaeltacht Service Town, the regional spatial and economic strategy concerned shall respect the need to protect the use of Irish therein and the...

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. 254: In page 73, line 15, after “cultural” to insert “, Irish language”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have questions on this section, and the Minister of State may need the officials for them. My questions refer specifically to sections 27(10) and (12). These subsections relate to the role of the regional assembly in a co-ordinated area plan. In its submission to the committee on 30 January 2024, the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly raised a number of important questions. It might...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me be a little bit clearer. With respect to section 27(10), the regional assembly has been given the role of designating, in accordance with subsection (12), a planning authority to be the principal planning authority. Against what guidance or criteria will that be done? It has the role of designating any other planning authority whose functional area covers the settlement or part of...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Both regional assemblies.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What happens if there is a disagreement? Will that be dealt with by the provisions of section 70?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is quite important. I am not necessarily disagreeing with the provisions of the section. As I understand it, the co-ordinated area plans propose to do what Deputy John Paul Phelan's White Paper was unable to do. I cannot remember the name of the mechanism he proposed, but it caused untold disagreement among city and county managers and some disquiet among councillors, in particular in...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: My understanding from section 70 is that the committee has to agree the plan, which then goes to the two or three local authorities. There must be some mechanism for decision-making. However, I am happy to stand corrected on that. I do not want us to stray into a discussion of section 70 before we get to it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean, for example, that in such a case, the requirements under subsection 27(10) would be jointly carried out by the two regional assemblies as appointed?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On the question I asked about deciding which planning authority is to be the principal planning authority, will guidance be given and regulations provided? How will one or two regional assemblies, as the case may be, determine that?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important that there be some level of guidance in this regard in advance. This is quite a new process. It would be really useful to have the maximum amount of clarity provided at this stage. I want to stick with these provisions rather than looking ahead to section 70, which we will deal with presently. Is it the case that before any of the functions set out under subsection 27(10)...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister of State in a position at this stage to give us any flavour of what that guidance might be? For instance, is the thinking in the Department that the local authority with the larger land mass in the co-ordinated area will automatically be the lead or will it be a question of which authority has the necessary competence, skills and staffing? The Minister of State and I have...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question on the decision-making functions of the committee, as set out.