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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 122: In page 118, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) A development management statement shall include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank, cemetery, monument or other places of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way shall be...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 126: In page 121, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “(3) In the process of consultation under subsection (1), where an incompatibility between either the National Planning Framework or the National Marine Planning Framework and a National Planning Policies and Measures is identified, consistency of a development plan with the National Planning...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 131: In paragraph (e), to delete all words from “, but” down to and including “strategy”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 131: In paragraph (e), after “particular strategy” to insert “, except in circumstances where a majority of the members of a planning authority agree by resolution that a particular strategy requires more than one direction as a matter of public interest”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 143: In page 154, to delete lines 20 to 25 and substitute the following: “(b) is materially inconsistent with— (i) the National Planning Framework; (ii) where the planning authority is a coastal planning authority, the National Marine Planning Framework, or (iii) the relevant regional spatial and economic strategy.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 145: In page 155, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(16) Where a planning authority demonstrates that the development plan or proposed variation to such development plan is consistent with the National Planning Framework and the National Maritime Planning Framework and to be brought into alignment with a National Planning Statement would lead...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No.146: In page 159, line 18, to delete “The Minister may, subject to this section,” and substitute “The Minister may, subject to this section and the approval of both Houses of the Oireachtas,”

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 188 in this grouping is a technical misplacement on my part, so I will be withdrawing that. Crucially, all of our amendments in this section, including amendments Nos. 163 and 164, are attempts to remove liquid natural gas, LNG, infrastructure from the definition of strategic gas infrastructure development that is in the Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Apologies. I will come back in on the next grouping.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Over the past year or two, I have had engagement with environmental NGOs, activists, Green Party members and others on the importance of banning liquefied natural gas, LNG. Throughout this Oireachtas term, there has been discussion about how we can ensure LNG, which is inclusive of fracked gas, is banned. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has always been vague and equivocal in his language...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The policy is to prioritise it-----

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry but the Minister of State used the phrase "policy-based". What does that mean?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is literally prioritising it in legislation.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State is interfering with me through this Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Government is saying that it has a policy-based approach but it has produced almost 800 pages of legislation. The Minister of State said the policy is separate and we keep it within our hearts or something, but let us be clear, the policy is reflected in the legislation and the legislation prioritises liquified natural gas as strategic infrastructure and fast-tracks planning permission...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is subject to-----

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not speaking to the amendment; I am speaking to Schedule 2 on page 737.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It was just factual, in terms of the line reference.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 163: In page 200, line 19, after “seabed),” to insert “which for the avoidance of doubt shall not be a terminal, building or installation used for the liquefication of natural gas or the importation, offloading, storage or regasification of liquified natural gas,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 164: In page 200, to delete lines 20 to 25.