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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Green Party for tabling this important amendment. In some sense, it does more than just provide a definition. As the Minister of State will know, far too often if something is not set out somewhere in law, even by way of a definition, it can be extremely difficult to get really worthwhile projects over the line. We all have experience in our own constituencies of people who...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On amendment No. 125, was the word "range" in the original definition in the existing legislation or was it a new word that was put into this draft and then to be taken out for the reasons just stated? In the context of amendment No. 553, I am not clear on what the actual practical consequence are of the insertion of the proposed text into section 73. Perhaps the Minister of State will...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, it is very clear. I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The co-ordinated area plans are really important. I remember the urgency with which the then Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, brought forward a general scheme on this particular issue. In Athlone, Ferrybank in Waterford and Drogheda and that part of east Meath, there is obviously a certain level of urgency. I am not against the idea of giving more time because one year is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, cycles.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have some questions, rather than points. The Minister of State may not have this information to hand but if there is an indicative list, or a list of the current co-ordinated area plans, I would be interested in having it. I know of three or four of them. When we were discussing the propositions made by the then Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, in the previous Oireachtas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If that is the case, it means that in the case of Waterford and the bit of Ferrybank in Kilkenny, it could be as late as 2033 before the plan commences. Given that it will take one or two years to produce the plan, the plan might not be in place till 2034 or 2035, which is a decade away. That is even longer again. I do not represent any of these areas so I do not have the same level of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It could be - it does not have to be - a decade before we get any of these co-ordinated area plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Carlow is the other one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have those here. I can look them up myself.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is 100% the case. I am just looking at the outer limit. If there are two or three local authorities, would you have to wait until both or all three local authorities have their new plans before you can initiate the co-ordinated area plan? Or, could it be commenced when one, more than likely the lead local authority, has agreed its plan? Do they all have to agree their new plans?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I assume the lead local authority would have to have the new plan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The timeline could be as long as ten years, although it could also be shorter. It cannot commence until the new development plans are in place.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are no plans in place co-ordinating the different local authorities; that is the problem.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendment relates to section 16, on public inspection. That section states: Where this Part requires publication by the Office of the Planning Regulator, a regional assembly or a planning authority of a notice stating that any matter or thing is or will be made available for inspection by the public ... [where the time period is not specified in the legislation] the Office of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously, I disagree. I am not going to labour the point but wish to make three points. The first concerns the determination of what constitutes a holiday period. Ultimately, that would be a matter for regulation. General provisions could set out what the periods are, and that would be in the gift of the Minister. The problem with this section is that it deals precisely with those cases...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: One would like to ensure such people would adhere to the same high standards the current Minister has set for himself. Therefore, there needs to be some clarification regarding what "reasonable" means or a linking of "reasonable" to meaningful public participation. "Reasonable" could mean what is reasonable to the authority or what is reasonable to the person trying to engage. If the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ramadan, for example.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Deputy should give us the quotation.