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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It will take a bit of time to work out the best way to process some of this material. My remarks are in no way a criticism. We are talking about a series of very important transitional mechanisms. I appreciate that the Minister of State had to read out a statement but I am still very unclear as to how some of the mechanisms are going to work. I have a couple of general questions on the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This leads to a question I asked at the start. I will ask it in the context of these provisions also. Upon the passage of the Bill, the Act of 2000 is repealed, but until the enactment of the relevant new sections of the Bill-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister might explain that. Is there some sense of a timeline of enactment, even for these? I know that it is very difficult but can the Minister of State give us some sense of what we are looking at?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Could there be no plan if a replacement plan is not put in place? Would it just fall?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It falls.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister of State or any of his officials know how many, if any, of our local authorities are still in or are about to commence a development plan review? Nearly all of them must be complete.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There might be two, according to one of the Minister of State’s officials. The reason I am asking-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good - it does not have to be today - if the Minister of State could confirm which local authorities are in that position. The only reason I say this is that elected members and councillors from those administrative areas-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason I ask is that it would be very important to a Deputy or a councillor from one of those local authority areas to know that the local area plan, in all likelihood, is simply going to fall and is not likely to be replaced by any of the new plans. Those sections of the Bill will have to be enacted and those plans will have to be produced. It is not likely that a replacement plan...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. My apologies to the Minister of State but my point is a separate one. There has been great anticipation for these transitional mechanisms, both in the House and more generally, because people want to know how they are going to operate. It is important that we take time to go through this so that people are clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Even if that ambitious-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The point I wish to make is an important one for the Minister of State to understand. Even if that ambitious enactment deadline-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to let me make my point because it is important. The development plans in a number of local authorities have not yet completed a review, or have gone into the review process.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They have local area plans.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Notwithstanding that the new types of plans may be enacted next year, the creation of those new plans is likely to take some time. It may or may not be prioritised by the management or the officials. It would be good if the Department could provide this committee with a list of the relevant local authorities and relevant local area plans which are potentially likely to fall unless the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Until the development plan changes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State has made that very clear, 100%.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. My point still stands, however. If the local area plan of the Minister of State’s party colleagues and my party colleagues in Sligo is at risk of collapsing because of a lack of alignment between the transitional mechanisms, the enactment of the new sections and the production of a new plan, they would like to know that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. I have a couple of specific questions but I-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason this is important is that a local community or local representatives could have put a great deal of effort into the local area plan. Their new development plan might conclude within six or 12 months and, therefore, there is a-----