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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is not a question of views; it is a question of what is in the Bill. Let me give another practical example. This is what is likely to happen if the Government proceeds down this deficient path. Let us consider, for example, the current section 28 ministerial guidelines on building heights. Let us imagine that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, decides later this year, if this Bill...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a follow-up question. When the Minister of State answers, I will make one other observation before I move on. Is it the Government's intention to transpose the section 28 ministerial guidelines on building heights into a national planning policy statement or will that be revoked?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will say to the Minister of State, and more so to his officials, that if both the sustainable compact growth guidelines, which are broadly positive-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The folks behind the Minister of State put a lot of work into them, in fairness-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: These people are working very hard on those guidelines. We should always acknowledge the specific work they do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I suggest there could be a very significant conflict between those two sets of what are currently section 28 guidelines. I know the Minister of State said the decision on section 28 guidelines for building heights has been made but, again, it is a further cause for concern that if both sets of guidelines had the force or statutory imprimatur of these provisions, very significant conflict...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a secondary observation. Deputy O'Callaghan's question was not answered so I will ask it in a very simple form. Are the national planning statements, particularly the national policies and measures mentioned in section 23(1)(a), statutory or non-statutory? That will be a straight answer.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I get an answer to that first? It is a very specific question.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Are they statutory or non-statutory? It is a very important question for legal clarity.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the question and I do not think the Minister of State gave a correct answer. I will be very specific. The national planning framework is a statutory plan. It is very clear it is a statutory plan. My understanding of the national planning statements, particularly as outlined in section 23(1)(a), is that they are statutory policies. I am looking for a "Yes" or a "No". They are...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the question. Are they statutory or non-statutory? It is a really basic question.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They are statutory. That is-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They are statutory.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They are statutory, however. The Minister of State has confirmed that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What forces the local authorities to have plans consistent with those statements is that those statements are statutory in nature. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have some similar amendments, although they appear to be in another grouping, so I will make a brief comment in support of Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment. As the Minister of State will be aware, we have a procedure whereby any changes to exempted development regulations come to this committee by way of a motion of the Oireachtas. There is sometimes a good discussion at the committee with...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Of course there is nothing to prevent a Minister from doing X or Y. The purpose of legislation is to try to set out what the Minister should do in all circumstances. The difficulty relates to how some Ministers may act. If we look at the national planning framework, for example, the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, and his successor, Eoghan Murphy, were responsible in this regard when the...