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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 have an identical amendment, which is amendment No. 139. The only difference is one is an (f) and one is a (g) but the text of the amendments is the same. To add to Deputy O'Callaghan's point, a number of organisations which either engage directly in the pre-legislative scrutiny, or which have engaged with committee members since then by way of correspondence, have raised the need to...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is racking up a large number of amendments for Report Stage. It is good to have the collaborative spirit back after the brief interregnum of the past two hours. I have several questions. Given the enormous priority the Government has given to the climate Act, the carbon budgets and the sectoral targets, and given that during the process of producing the Bill much of...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I will not hold my breath in the context of seeing what comes out the other side. I would still like an explanation as to why it is not in the Bill in the first place. Quite a number of amendments aimed at trying to fix this particular problem were tabled by me, Deputies Duffy, Matthews and O'Callaghan and others. I am intrigued as to why it is not in there in some shape or form already.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 366 is also in my name. The Minister of State's response to the amendments is deeply disappointing and frustrating. It speaks to an approach to this issue that does not seem to understand the significance of ensuring that there is, in the planning legislation and, in particular, with respect to the housing strategies in the development plan, an absolute requirement for the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: When we did the report, as the Minister of State referenced, we had officials from the Department in. They told us they were waiting for the European Union to complete its work in this area, which is due to be completed in 2027, and that only after this were they going to act. The Minister of State has broadly repeated that timeline here. The difficulty is that we have legally binding...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will move on the conversation to incorporate amendments Nos. 612 and 613 but they relate to the same issue. In my opinion and I say this respectfully, the Minister of State is plain wrong that it is not a planning matter. My two amendments Nos. 612 and 613 seek to explain in practical terms that this is a planning matter. Amendment No. 612 relates to section 84, which deals with...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This comes back to the various areas to be considered in the national planning framework. Amendment No. 142 seeks to insert the words "air quality management". Amendment No. 143 seeks to insert the wording "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...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: To be helpful, there is the same point with respect to my final amendment in this group, No. 893.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 893.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It deals with separate things in different sections of the Bill.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Please bear with me. We had a lengthy debate on those.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We dealt with those.