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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister has already replied on the amendments but I will formally put them. The Minister said that amendment No. 114 relates to a situation where the Minister is entitled to form an opinion. To be clear, our amendment relates to a situation where the Minister is not entitled to form an opinion. It relates to where a court has said that the Minister was not entitled to form an opinion....

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 111: In page 97, after line 42, to insert the following: “(15) Where a regional assembly demonstrates that the regional spatial and economic strategy is consistent with the National Planning Framework and the National Maritime Planning Framework and to be brought into alignment with a National Planning Statement would lead to inconsistency with either the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 112: In page 98, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(4) Where a provision is subject to a draft direction in accordance with subsection (2) but that provision is considered a protective measure such provision shall continue to have effect pending the decision of the Minister under section 40(4).”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 114: In page 103, line 36, to delete “shall not warrant the quashing of the direction where” and substitute with “shall warrant the quashing of the direction, including where”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 115: In page 104, to delete lines 33 to 38 and substitute the following: “(1) A planning authority shall make a development plan for its functional area every 6 years. (2) Not later than 4 years after the making of each development plan for the functional area of a planning authority, the planning authority shall commence a review of the development plan in...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendments Nos. 115 and 116 speak to the serious concerns we have around the erosion of local democracy and the centralisation of power in the Bill. Amendment No. 115 seeks to ensure that development plans are made every six years, with the review beginning every four years. We spoke on Committee Stage about the move from a six-year local development plan to a ten-year plan. This will mean...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What the Minister of State is presenting as the solution has been clearly identified as the problem by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community, the Traveller Oireachtas group and other organisations. To talk about funding and the levels of funding when the funding has been consistently unused or under used is entirely hypothetical. To suggest that the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is the case with accessibility and all of these other issues. The fact is that we are sliding backwards on public rights of way. I spoke to the Minister of State two years and a half years ago about the vision for what public rights of way could be, even from a green perspective. Our amendments refer to access to spaces of natural beauty. It is not just about that; it is about access...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: These are essential things, heritage sites and all of the rest, but there is nothing in there around that. What we are seeing is a backward step whereby it might become harder. We know that under this Government's watch a very stupid mistake was nearly made whereby all of the rights of way by use would have expired. Now we are seeing a kind of chipping away whereby some of the public...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I know I cannot come in again but I would just say that I was clear in supporting the national planning framework but not the national planning statement.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 116: In page 105, to delete lines 10 to 16 and substitute the following: “(5) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a development plan shall have effect for a period of 6 years beginning on the date on which it comes into effect under subsection (17) of section 55. (b) Where the Minister, at the request of the elected council of a planning authority, certifies in...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 118: In page 110, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(b) supports implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 119: In page 112, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) a specific strategy for Traveller accommodation prepared in direct consultation with Travellers;”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 120: In page 117, line 24, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 121: In page 118, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) A development management statement shall include objectives for the preservation and enhancement of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, cemetery, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way...