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

Eoin Ó Broin: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how much jet kerosene was imported into Ireland annually from 2010 to 2023. [7810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish the State Action for Aviation Emissions Reduction which should have been submitted in 2021 to the International Civil Aviation Organisation. [7471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for allocating SNA support to students in second level educational settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered sanctioning the opening of a new reading school or new reading classes attached to mainstream schools in the Dublin mid-west area given the oversubscription for reading schools in Dublin for the 2024/2025 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the categories of people who are eligible for postal voting. [7583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many courses (details supplied) will run in CHO7 in 2024; and the dates on which they will commence. [8092/24]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three points. First, it is a bit bizarre to say that planning regulations are of a technical nature and, therefore, we do not need to consult on those. I would have thought some of the more technical regulations would benefit from third-party engagement, particularly if it is by way of prescribed bodies and, therefore, you would be setting out the kinds of bodies that would be...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final comment on amendment No. 39. It obviously reinforces amendment No. 38 in terms of effective public participation. Effective public participation is not just having a meeting where people say stuff. Ultimately, for public participation to be meaningful, it has to in some way influence the outcome. Killian Woods had a very interesting article in the Business Postpublished...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not just any comment. The IPI is a hugely important body in terms of this legislation because it represents the country's planners. It engaged with the committee and the Chair may remember that some of its commentary was quite stark and very forthright. The institute made a subsequent submission to the Department which was then shared with the committee after the final text of the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Their point is that the Government is not listening to them.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I take the Chair's point.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I should keep a record of all of the memos the Minister of State has promised to bring back to us because his officials, who are already overworked on this Bill, are going to have ever-growing mountains of paper to produce. This is my last word on the IPI for the moment. The difference between the Minister of State's and the IPI's description of the consultation process is interesting. That...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will deal with those arguments in reverse. Experience shows that where exempted development regulations are brought before the House, they are expedited in a timely manner. Members of this committee both during this Oireachtas and the previous Oireachtas took seriously our responsibility regarding those regulations. When we were asked to deal with them in a timely manner, we did so, both...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one more amendment in this group. I do not know if Deputy O'Callaghan wants to come in.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will move to amendment No. 42, the last in this group. I appreciate that we are spending a lot of time on this section, which is only three quarters of a page. However, it governs the issuance of regulations and I suspect that when we get to the next group of amendments and discuss the regulations and enactment, the actual pile of paper containing the regulations arising from the Bill...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is like the legislative equivalent of unauthorised development. We have a provision, which allows that the Minister can modify any provision of the Act. It means that without due process through the Oireachtas, the provision of the Act can be modified by him or her within three years. We are told that is okay and not to worry, because they will then retrospectively look for retention...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not the case that this is only for technical or drafting issues or transitional matters. The Bill states that "any such regulations may modify any provision of this Act". If this was simply about a procedure whereby within three years somebody notices a drafting or technical error or some transitional arrangement, that is fine and that could be an explicit provision in the Bill....

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Where in the legislation does it say that, with the greatest of respect?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, let me tease this out. Here we have a general provision that will allow any future Minister, by way of secondary legislation, to change or modify any provision of this legislation. The Minister of State has told the committee that this would then have to be regularised by the Oireachtas through primary legislation but there is no legal requirement to do that in this Bill. On what...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Here is my final question on this. Is there anything in legislation here or elsewhere that would compel a Minister who has used this provision to change primary legislation by way of secondary legislation or regulations to then have to come before the Oireachtas with amending legislation? I put it to the Minister of State that there is nothing that compels a Minister to do that. It may be...