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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: I understand why they are prescribed, but the Minister's argument was that you have to be careful about these prescriptive lists, that you cannot add additional bodies because you do not want to open the State to judicial review as a result of others not being included. I asked what were the criteria and he said the criterion was that they must be State bodies. It could just be that An...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.
- 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 looking for that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. It is a very good organisation. It is just to understand the logic of why some are in and some are out. I understand why An Taisce is in; it is because it is prescribed in legislation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are four clusters.
- 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 really helpful way of doing it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is really helpful because each day we have been trying to work our way to what is the most efficient way without asking-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Here is the question. We have 63 groupings to get through over whatever period of time. Some of them are quite small groupings but where some of them are larger, if there are clusters, if we knew in advance from the officials to the Cathaoirleach how the Minister was clustering them, we could be a little bit more prepared when we come in. It would be really helpful.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, of the remaining 50 groupings, I can only see four or five that are likely to have subclusters. If it was possible, it would speed up the process, which I know the Minister wants to do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: However, I appreciate the officials are overburdened.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Even in summary.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister would never bore us. He might frustrate, annoy or anger us but never bore us.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for that. I will also make some general observations. I am sure the Minister is aware of the protest outside the Oireachtas yesterday in relation to some of these debates. Increasingly, when we are engaging with the people who live in or want to live in the Gaeltacht, their representative organisations or the planning officers, the issue of housing is becoming central...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is probably the most significant amendment in the entire group. That is evident from its length. I will pick up on where the Minister left off before we took the break around what he argued regarding the challenges, particularly with social and affordable housing eligibility. Our social housing system is very clear. In addition to general needs housing, we have a variety of other...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly, but they are not legally permissible. Let us not go back to the rural planning guidelines. We will fight that one out separately. Has there been any attempt in any other EU jurisdiction to find some similar mechanism, particularly in countries that have minority or national languages they are trying to revive? This amendment speaks more broadly to that cluster of issues I...
- 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 tempting offer.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I think I heard the Minister start to say Galway.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What other mechanism could be used? I am genuinely interested to hear the Minister's thoughts.