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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I hope the Minister of State is going to give us good news and as the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, did earlier, he might tell us the Government will introduce this as a Report Stage amendment. I call on the Minister of State to give us the good news.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: He has not spoken on these amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There is always time for a change.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State knows, we on this side of the room are very reasonable. I cannot speak for others but I am happy to withdraw on that basis but reserve the right to reintroduce on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 217, 218 and 219 relate to an earlier proposal for a decision-making process for the Oireachtas. It would have required the insertion of the word "draft" before "national planning policy statement" in the legislation. These are minor consequential amendments that we do not need to worry about for the moment.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are two questions I would like the Minister of State to answer before I speak to the amendment. We are dealing here with proposed amendments to the planning statements. Section 24(10)(a) refers to a situation where "it does not substantively or materially alter the draft National Planning Statement". Who decides what is substantive or material and against which criteria? Section...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I presume the answer to the question of who decides is the Minister on foot of advice from the AG and-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I know the practice with AGs is that they do not necessarily give the Government one opinion, but a range of opinions.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Advise and the Minister decides.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That was the answer I feared. Separate to the questions I asked, the provision reads: “it is not likely to have significant effects on the environment or on any European site.” One of the problems with this is that it is a little like making a decision on a planning application. Under the current rules, the decision is made based on the application on its own. We do not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It reads: "For the purposes of subsection (9), a modification shall be deemed to be minor where it does not substantively or materially alter the draft National Planning Statement." This is broadly in line with the wording in the section.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It continues: Notwithstanding subsection (10), where a modification is likely to have a significant effect on the environment, or is likely to have a significant effect on any European site either individually or in combination with other plans or projects, the modification shall not be deemed to be minor. Sometimes, impacts are cumulative and relate to adjacent sites, projects or plans....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is "shall not be deemed to be minor".
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is exactly as it says. It is either a combination of sites or sites that abut or interact with other plans or projects.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If it is not clear, what I am trying to capture are cumulative impacts.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let us deal with these amendments first and we can deal with the other amendment afterwards. I am happy to see the language, as it was originally set out in the Bill, changed. It was one of the things I had queried because the provision seemed too broad and, as the Minister said, could be interpreted more widely than was the original intention. However, I am still a little concerned...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but wider.