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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: I am listening to the Senator.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: I am listening.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: Where does the Senator come from?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: We had a lengthy discussion on this issue previously when various amendments were proposed. I feel a little sympathy for Senator Warfield because he is unable to get in on the action officially. The amendments are pretty much the same, but were dealt with in the Houses at an earlier stage. We went through them and voted on them.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: I am just saying it is fair to recognise that everyone has a problem with this. Some people want a final vote on it. We debated this difficulty at length a few months ago. I was here for that debate. I do not have time to go back over the entire conversation. I ask people to think seriously about how they intend to vote on this proposal. Senator Coffey mentioned a few issues that I...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: They are separate. Some Senators have discussed matters that are not relevant to this legislation. They are separate. The capital plan part - the expenditure of €116 billion, and probably a few more billion on top of it - is led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I ask Senators to trust me when I say that Department spends its money wisely. It adheres to all the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: There are two separate issues at stake here. I remember sitting in the Dáil while Brian Cowen launched the national development plan somewhere else down the road. I understand the annoyance of Senators about that. They need to get over it because it is a separate issue. The issue of the launch is not the same as the planning issue we are talking about. The launch is not the same as...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: That is not true.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: The Senator's colleagues were there.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: For clarification, I clearly stated they were launched together and they are linked. I am referring here to the legislation, which deals with the national planning framework and is not related to the capital plan. I ask the Senator not to mix up my words. This is a serious issue. They are not linked in this legislation, which is what I said to the Senator at the start. I cannot be...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: The Senator said that.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: We were all here last year too.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: That is not a problem. The Houses are open.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: Senator Grace O'Sullivan's amendment relates to section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which currently provides that planning authorities shall have regard to guidelines issued by the Minister in the performance of all their planning functions such as determining planning applications, enforcement and forward planning. The amendment proposes to insert a new section 28(1D) which...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: The Senator proposes putting this process in place for essential interventions but some of them do not require that lengthy public consultation. We have shown, on the record, that when it was needed we have done that but on the need to intervene quickly, which the Minister has the ability to do at present, that would change if we were to include the Senator's amendment. I am not sure it...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: Senator Grace O'Sullivan's amendment is much the same as the one she tabled on Committee Stage to insert a requirement in the planning code that planning applications be refused where the proposed development would be contrary to the Water Framework Directive because it might cause a deterioration in water quality or the status of water quality and thereby jeopardise the attainment of good...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: This proposed amendment to the principal Act to include a new section 44A has arisen from recent discussions with the Departments of Justice and Equality and Foreign Affairs and Trade, where it was considered that some provision should be made for the Minister, following the decision by Government, to be able to revoke or modify a granted planning permission where the carrying out of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: When one reads the amendment closely and goes through the detail it does not in any sense accord an untrammelled power to the Minister. That is not what we are trying to do. I accept one might be concerned about handing over too much power to the Minister.The Minister can only make an order under this section having been requested to do so by the Ministers for Justice and Equality, Foreign...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: Section 50B of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides for the special legal costs rules set out in sections 2 and 4 of Article 9 of the UN Aarhus Convention as applying to access to justice in environmental litigation, whereby independent judicial review proceedings challenging decisions, acts or omissions subject to the public participation provisions of the convention must not be...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Damien English: A decision on changes in the north-east has yet to be made. It will probably be dealt with in the legislation being brought forward by the Minister, Deputy Naughten. As I said, we will have a lengthy discussion on the Bill brought forward by the Minister. On whether we are reflecting the most recent changes of the European courts, we are trying to deal with the most recent change in 2016...