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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 would like to temper some of the Minister of State's surprise. The SPPRs in the guidance document are quite good, as I have said publicly, but the difficulty is that they are decided by the Minister. If there are to be statutory mandatory planning rules, they should be passed by the Oireachtas. I do not want to open up this debate as we have had it. My issue is not with the idea of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make my point. A number of SPPRs have fallen foul of the courts and are no longer mandatory in practice. That is why all the judicial reviews of SHDs in conflict with the development plans were lost. There was a very large number, with which I can provide the Minister of State if he wants. I realise I am not going to convince the Minister of State but I put it to him that some of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: SPPRs are not currently approved by the Cabinet; they are agreed only by the Minister.

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. 183: In page 64, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(e) prescribed bodies,”. I will withdraw this amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it 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: I move amendment No. 185: In page 65, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(g) board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Language Planning Officers and Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga.”.

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. 192: In page 65, line 21, after “rural” to insert “and Gaeltacht”

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. 194: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...

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. 200: In page 66, lines 6 and 7, to delete “and the assessment of any application for development consent under Part 4”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment is self-explanatory. We had a lengthy discussion in the previous session with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, about adding other areas which should be included in the list of 15 areas of section 24 for consideration when issuing national planning statements. As I said to the Minister when he was here earlier, I appreciate that the section 24(1) does not preclude the adding 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: I will go further than Deputy O'Callaghan on the spending because this is something I have been tracking very carefully for quite a number of years. During Covid-19, for the first time, the capital allocation was spent in full. Initially, this was on Covid measures. In many cases, then, it was spent on-site improvements. Again, these are very welcome but the number of new...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some questions that will not be dealt with in a few minutes. I am conscious that it is 5.10 p.m. and we were supposed to be finished at 5 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will not get this done.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it an offence for a landlord to seek sex in lieu of rent or to advertise to seek sex in lieu of rent and for that purpose to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. It was in December 2021 that Ann Murphy, a young reporter with the Irish Examiner, broke the scandal that has...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 141: In page 61, line 12, after “cultural” to insert “, Irish language community”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 143: In page 61, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(vi) compliance with the State’s European Union obligations for waste management, water quality, air quality, nature conservation and restoration, and reduction of green house gas emissions,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 147: In page 61, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(iv) preserve the Gaeltacht settlement patterns in which the Irish language has survived as a community language in the case of Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 148: In page 61, to delete lines 19 to 23 and substitute the following: “(d) conservation of the environment and its amenities, including— (i) landscape, landscape features, including hedgerows, (ii) ecology, (iii) biodiversity, (iv) water resources, (v) archaeological, historic, architectural and natural heritage, and the establishment of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 150: In page 61, line 19, after “conservation” to insert “and restoration”.