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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I think the Minister misunderstands the purpose of specific amendments. With respect to the OPR and amendment No. 1130, there is a planning dimension to this, which the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media is not equipped to assess. This is the whole point, and this is why folks like Conradh na Gaeilge have put so much effort into encouraging the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of clarification, that is true. However, to go back to the example I gave with respect to Traveller accommodation, it does not just assess all development plans. It has also done a really important report on the failure of local authorities to comply with those aspects of the development plan that relate specifically and exclusively to Traveller-specific accommodation....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a completely separate function from that of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. It is around the plans, planning policy and development, something that the Department cannot do, is not equipped to do and should not be doing. That is a point of clarification.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A Chathaoirligh, I have a procedural point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It might be helpful for us, given that the Minister said he had a number of subgroupings, to hear the numbers listed in those in order that we can manage our time properly.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: As is customary, I suggest we take a five-minute tea break and then go straight into that next grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions. They are more so that I might understand. To follow the argument about what that then means, let us take a concrete example. Amendment No. 441 relates to section 52 on page 114. Is it that there is something about the list that the Minister has prescribed that is different that makes it less open to the kind of judicial review legal challenge than the types of groups...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. Just from our side of the room, it would be really helpful. Essentially, the Minister is saying there is a group of organisations that should be prescribed in the legislation and they are in the legislation. There is a wider group whom there is potential to consult. That is up to the planning authority in line with the regulations. Obviously that means there is some basis for why...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies for cutting across the Minister. I have a couple of points. That would be the first thing that would be useful. Second, I fully accept that you cannot list every organisation. That is obviously why the provision on subsection (3)(j) is there but there is a big difference between being in the guidelines and being in the prescribed list in the sense that the prescribed list is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask one very quick supplementary question about that as what the Minister said is clear. The text on page 114, in section (3)(g), lists "any local community development committee [the LCDCs] within the functional area of the planning authority". The LCDCs - I sat on one - are a function of the local authority. They fit within them, albeit they have other mandates. Clearly, although...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is just so I understand. While it is not in the list I am looking at, we prescribe such organisations as An Taisce in planning legislation, but it is not a statutory or State body. It is just so I am clear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a difference between being State funded and being a statutory body.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not challenging that; I am welcoming it. So that I understand, the Minister stated that what was unique about the bodies in the lists is that they were statutory bodies. I am saying that An Taisce, which is often a prescribed body in planning legislation, is not a statutory body. It is State funded, but so is Conradh na Gaeilge and the others we listed. It would be helpful to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not because they are statutory bodies or is it the case that sometimes it is and sometimes it is not?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the exception to the rule that allows An Taisce to be prescribed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not arguing that An Taisce should not be prescribed. It is good that it is. The only thing I will say is this. It is a small point for the Minister to think about.