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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 understand, but is the Minister proposing to introduce a corrected amendment before the end of Committee Stage or-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If I finish the question, it might help the Minister to answer it. Is it his intention to bring back a corrected amendment before the end of Committee Stage or will it be a revised amendment on Report Stage? I ask him to expand on the rationale for this. It is not a minor amendment; it. It is a significant intervention into the Bill. I want to understand the reason for the before I make...

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 couple of supplementary questions. I accept the Minister is looking to clarify the language. There is a mechanism by which an alternate wording of an amendment can be given to committee usually where it is a simple typographical correction etc. That is not what the Minister is talking about here. He is talking about something that could be a significant change and clarification...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine. On the substance of it, housing needs demand assessment is critical in the development plans setting their population targets and their core strategies. My understanding from previous meetings with departmental officials is that there is already headroom of somewhere between 20% and 25%. This is not an argument against what the Minister is proposing, I just want to think it...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two final brief questions. First, is the Minister aware of the prevalence of planning applications being refused solely on the grounds that the HNDA population targets, in terms of granted planning permissions, have been met or exceeded? Is this something that-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Has it happened?

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 final question. Has any industry body lobbied the Minister or any other member of the Government for this change to the legislation? Has this come about as a result of any direct lobbying for this amendment to the Act?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Under no circumstances.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: As we all have, and there is nothing wrong with that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We have all taken an open approach, including in this committee, and I have no issue with that. However, my question was specific. Has this specific change been requested by any specific industry lobby?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. I understand the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 36: In page 38, line 17, to delete “or expedient”. While all the amendments in this group relate to amendments, they are all quite distinct, so I am going to deal with each of them separately if that is okay. Amendment No. 36 seeks to make a change to section 4(2). That subsection currently reads "Regulations under this Act ... may contain such...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will stick to amendment No. 36 for the moment and come back to amendment No. 37 afterwards. First, just because something has been done in the past does not mean it should be done in the future. A Green Minister of State should know that better than most people. In addition, the Minister of State has not explained what the function of the word is. I would have thought "necessary", which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will also speak to amendment No. 37. What the Minister of State said does not clarify it. If the Government wanted to use the word "quicker", it should have used the word "quicker". Part of the problem with this is if the language in the legislation is not clear, it will end up in court. In court, the threshold will not be that the Minister of State said at committee the intention...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I suspect they do not exist.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My final point on these two amendments is that the procedure for a resolution to annul the regulation is not a check at all. One assumes that the Government will have a majority and that it will be able to defeat a motion to annul the regulation. I am not aware of any such resolution even having been tabled during my time here. If one were tabled, it would be lost. The idea of a check is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the anticipated emissions from domestic aviation per year from 2022 to 2030 and the projected reductions with existing measures and with additional measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the number of islanded data centres that are already connected to the gas grid; those that contracted to connect; those that are seeking contract to connect; and for each category, the amount of capacity involved, in tabular form. [7671/24]