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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: I move amendment No. 45: In page 39, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “7. The Minister shall, within eight months of the passing of this Act lay before the Oireachtas and relevant Committee a draft schedule of amendment legislation that the Minister intends to bring forward including in relation to: (a) the reform of Compulsory Purchase Order powers; (b) the Land...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the text of this essentially a transposition from the existing Act or is there anything in this which is new or different? It is just to put it on the record if there is.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a separate matter but it concerns this section so maybe it is best to deal with Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment first and I will come in on the second-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Now we are getting into the substance of the Bill there are a variety of sections I have technical questions about. I may choose to table amendments on these sections on Report Stage depending on the answers. What struck me as interesting about this section on short-term letting is there is no change in this from the legislation as passed by former Minister, Eoghan Murphy, and supported...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does not, though we are looking forward to that legislation and my colleague, Deputy Munster, will be leading on it for us. It is disappointing the Commission has overreached its remit, but that is a matter for another committee on another day. My question is a more basic one. We know this does not work. The very specific enforcement provisions set out in subsections (3) and (4) do not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, we supported the legislation because it was attempting to do what the committee wanted it to do. My point now, however, is that this portion of the section does not work and therefore is not good. The intention behind it is absolutely correct. All I ask is that section 8(3) and (4) are looked at between now and the final passage of the Bill. I am not asking the Minister...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 4 that we have dealt with previously.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We dealt with a long list of the transitional mechanisms on our first day out, which seems like a lifetime ago already. Is the transitional mechanism relevant to this issue contained in that list or is it in this section 9? I am not clear from reading section 9(1) if that is the transitional mechanism. Forgive me but I do not remember if there was one in the original list of transitional...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that specifically in relation to this or if it is needed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just for clarity, the Minister of State is telling the committee there will be a period between repeal and enactment-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was hoping he might be more specific than that. There will be a gap between repeal and enactment, there is no transitional mechanism in the text of the Bill or the amendments so far and the officials are working on whether or not an amendment is required to deal with that. Is that what the Minister of State is saying?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Why would there be a need for a Report Stage amendment if that is the mechanism?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Clarity is important here. The transitional mechanism is that, notwithstanding repeal, the provisions of the 2000 Act will continue to apply until such time as section 9 is enacted and regulations pertaining to it are enforced. Everything that is exempted development, or would have otherwise been exempted development under the 2000 Act, will continue to be able to secure that status, for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's officials will have nightmares because they have to review this before it is even finished. That is my question answered. I thank the Minister of State and his officials.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, briefly. We spent a lot of time on this issue previously, so I am not going to spend much time on this. The Minister of State, in his response, had it slightly the wrong way round. It is not that we want things to be exempted development. It is the very opposite. The idea here is that if a development in a Gaeltacht area had a negative impact in terms of the use of Irish locally, it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it that you cannot, or you just do not want to?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think the Minister of State misunderstands the amendment. The opposite is the case. Where somebody, for example, is seeking to have a development characterised as exempt, if that development either has not already been built or if they are seeking to build it, if it were to have a detrimental impact on the use of the Irish language in the Gaeltacht, then there should be a prohibition, or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am done with amendment No. 51.