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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: There is a second part of my question. I presume this is to protect the plans from legal challenge where there is a very legitimate reason the timelines might not have been met, as the Minister said. That is the function of this.
- 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: I move amendment No. 178: In page 64, lines 12 and 13, to delete “ “National Planning Policies and Measures” ” and substitute “ “Beartais Pleanála Náisiúnta” ”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is a disappointing response because the inclusion of the word "historic" is important. Section 24(1)(i) relates to the protection of landscapes and features of natural, archaeological, architectural and cultural heritage. However, there could be things that are historically important that do not fit in those other four terms. What we are trying to do is to slightly broaden it not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to bear with me because we have plenty of time to do this. I do not see, given the size and scale of a national planning policy statement or a mandatory ministerial guideline, how one could comply with EIA, SEA or AA requirements under EU law or Aarhus requirements for public participation. I cannot see any set of circumstances where, given the significance of...
- 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: To be helpful, amendments Nos. 217 to 219, inclusive, are related to an earlier amendment.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Those amendments are consequential on amendment No. 211 so I am quite happy not to talk to them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 221.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This amendment relates to section 24(10) with respect to the modifications and whether they are deemed minor or not. I have two questions to ask and I will speak to the amendment when I have heard the answer from the Minister of State. Section 24(10)(a) refers to a situation where "it does not substantively or materially alter the draft National Planning Statement". The question, of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No, it is section 24(10) on page 67 of the Bill.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I just want to be clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will probably speak to them separately, but if the Minister of State wishes to respond to them collectively, it is fine if we deal with them one by one. Amendment No. 222 represents the second part of the Irish Planning Institute’s general concerns raised with the committee and in its subsequent written submission regarding national planning policy statements. We had a detailed...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have always loved the phrase "mandatory ministerial guidelines". It is a wonderfully Orwellian phrase because they are either guidelines or they are mandatory. They cannot be both.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I remind the Minister of State that I have the floor. He will have time to respond. He should restrain himself, please. I return to my point. Something cannot be mandatory and a guideline. I absolutely understand that we have section 28 guidelines which have general guideline text. Within those there is the Orwellian mandatory requirement which is special planning policy requirement....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Mandatory.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I get that. When you read the section 28 guidelines, you note the general guidelines text and then the SPPR part in bold, just to emphasise that is the Orwellian mandatory bit you are meant to comply with.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: However, the real issue is not that. The reason the Government is introducing national planning policy statements to replace SPPRs is that when a number of very controversial SPPRs relating to design standards and building heights went to the courts, they did not stand up as legally robust on foot of judicial reviews. As a consequence, they are legally unsound. They comprise a legally weak...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.