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

Eoin Ó Broin: I would not even ask for a note, but when we come to that section of the Bill, perhaps the Minister of State will give us an update orally. That would be very helpful.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State said a ministerial action plan is being prepared.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That sounds really interesting and something our committee would probably be interested in getting sight of when it is ready. Would such a thing be possible? Is this something the Minister of State can take back to 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 will now speak to amendment No. 45. Again, this is just an opportunity to raise four very important areas which many of us had hoped would be included in this Bill. During the interactions we had in the committee last year when Maria Graham and the team come in to speak to us, we had flagged some issues we thought should be part of the review and ultimately part of the Bill. I was also...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will go through each of the issues. I am not clear what, if anything, the Minister of State is proposing in respect of a CPO. He confirmed to us what we already knew, that what was in the Bill was broadly a restatement of what was there previously. That does not address the two key problems, namely, the CPO process is too long and too expensive. In many cases, a public agency does not...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: To address the issues in reverse order, in June, it will be five years since that expert report on Traveller accommodation was published. The core planning recommendations of that report have not been implemented. The committee spent considerable time engaging with the three members of the panel and with the Minister to ensure that Part 8 and section 183 planning permissions and land...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The temporary exemption in Part 5 has nothing to do with Traveller accommodation. It is for a completely different purpose. While some local authorities, including my own, use it to advance a much-needed Traveller accommodation project, that project would have progressed just as well and within the same period of time under the old Part 8 because our local authority would not have blocked...

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 on to amendment No. 171, the next one.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to pick up on amendment No. 129. The Minister of State's response is astonishing.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us think of the national planning framework as the development plan for the State, because that is what it is. It is a statutory plan that is produced following extensive consultation and deliberation to set in place not a set of policies but a set of legally binding planning requirements which then feed into the national development plan, exactly as the Chair said, but also have a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is legislation for 30 years so we have to think not just of this Government or the next Government, but of Governments after that. Let us imagine that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, is in opposition and that the extensive consultation process was not undertaken, or imagine that there was an extensive consultation process but the issues raised were fundamentally ignored by the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am conscious that we will not get this discussion finished this evening.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It really sounds like the Minister of State is trying to convince himself rather than us.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a very brief point of clarification. Deputy McAuliffe's defence of his colleagues is admirable. My point is a different one. I am not at all suggesting that members of Government parties should not criticise a Government. In fact, I would encourage them to do it as often as possible. My point is a fundamentally different one. I used the example of the Planning Regulator because...

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. 40: In page 38, to delete lines 21 to 24 and substitute the following: "(4) Where regulations are proposed to be made under subsection (1)of section 9, or under Part 9, or subsection (2)ofsection 412, or an order is proposed to be made under Part 9, a draft of the regulations or the draft order, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations or...

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 follow-up questions. I will press the Minister of State for additional information on whether there is a timeline for the introduction of statutory timelines for the board. The answer may be "No" and that it is not possible at this stage but a sense of when the Government hopes or expects to introduce these would be helpful. Second, my question on staffing and resources was...