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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: On a small supplementary point, I assume the expert group, being a group of experts, had some sense of how to address the issues of definitions and types, so it is not beyond the realms of possibility. I will not labour the point but will press the amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will provide a practical example to support the amendment. This is always about the tension that exists between the need for economic development, growth and physical development and, on the other hand, meeting the health and well-being needs of a community. For example, there was an interesting paper circulated last week by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service mapping new...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not be minded to withdraw on that basis because they are two separate, although interrelated, propositions. If something is not explicit in the plan-making process of the regional spatial and economic strategy, then the very high-level, overarching objectives of the NPF might not necessarily be translated and applied at that regional level in the most appropriate manner. I suspect...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not labour the point but I am interested in hearing his formal response to this amendment to at least have it on the record.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State did not explain why he does not like amendment No. 271. He just told us what it would do. He did not explain the problem with it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If I understand it correctly, the real issue here is that a regional assembly will have four weeks to publish its strategy. I presume that four weeks is to allow the assembly to edit the document, ensure it is composited, etc. The difficulty is that if people want to challenge a spatial strategy - let us hope they do not, but let us imagine that there is some very compelling legal reason...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Could the Minister of State clarify the point he made before he mentioned newspapers about the timeframe of six weeks from the date?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What page is that?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it eight weeks from-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----the end of that six week period or from publication?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: And that is potentially two weeks before the strategy-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: -----is given effect.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. That clears that up.

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.”.