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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Councillors should be held accountable for their bad decisions but this should not be at the expense of local democracy. The people who elect councillors have a fundamental say in local democracy and it would be a terrible irony if the outcome of the economic downturn and the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank is the loss of the people's right to give a mandate to their local representatives. I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 29: In page 40, to delete lines 41 to 44.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: This debate will soon conclude. We are now on amendment No. 32 out of 127 amendments, which means that we will not get to reach more than 90 amendments. New amendments were made on Committee Stage of which we got very short notice and there are 127 amendments on Report Stage today. At 5 o'clock the Minister's amendments will all become part of the Bill. We will have no say on them and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: While were discussing the last amendment, I received another new amendment. It just arrived in front of me. It was the first time I saw it. It was not even pointed out to me. It was on my desk. The manner in which this legislation is being dealt with is inappropriate. Planning is a fundamental issue that relates to the issue of local democracy. I have a fundamental problem with the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, line 11, after "guidelines" to insert the following: "and have due regard to development plan guidelines". The purpose of this amendment is to ensure development plan guidelines are of almost equal importance to the national spatial strategy and the regional planning guidelines. It has been proposed on foot of a suggestion made by a former Member of this...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 10 refers to the need to "address the necessity of adaptation to climate change". During a flooding incident a couple of year ago, the Minister made a big announcement that was publicised by a newspaper. He said he intended to introduce the national adaptation strategy earlier than intended, but it is late at this stage, in fact. When will we see the strategy? If the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Subparagraph 7(b)(ii)(o) deals with public rights of way. I understand the Minister of State has had conversations with Roger Garland about this provision. He raised concerns on behalf of the hill walking group with which he is associated. In Dún Laoghaire public rights of way were removed from a list but no procedure existed for extinguishing them. Does the amendment address the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 12: In page 15, to delete lines 19 to 47 and in page 16, to delete lines 1 to 29. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I have more or less covered what is proposed in it.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I do not have anything further to add because we have covered the points already in the previous amendments. I reiterate that a problem with the legislation is the inconsistency in phrasing throughout it. There needs to be a determination as to what is the right phase and to stick with it.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I support Deputy Bannon on this point. I raised this issue on Committee Stage. I refer to the idea that councils must have regard to regional planning guidelines, the new provisions in this Bill in that regard and the drawing up of regional planning guidelines and the national spatial strategy. I am referring to the essential point made by Deputy Bannon. Regional authorities are not...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy's party does not trust democracy.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 27: In page 36, to delete lines 35 to 38. This amendment proposes the deletion of subsection (17) of the new section 31 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as inserted by section 21 of the Bill. The original section 31 allowed the Minister to intervene where he or she has concerns about a particular development plan, allowing him or her to direct the planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I have a similar problem to Deputy Hogan. In amendment No. 12, I propose that section 8 be deleted. I have a particular problem with the subsection which states that submissions to a council shall not refer to a submission relating to requests or proposals for the zoning of particular land for any purpose. The section also states that a manager is restricted to providing a report on...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: There are some good provisions in this Bill and it is clearly a reaction to problems we have had in our planning legislation in the past.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The Green Party is not the first to do this. The previous Government, to be fair, passed the Planning and Development Act 2000 which introduced important initiatives, such as that on strategic development zones. Fianna Fáil has the second highest number of councillors in local democracy, yet it seems to be sleepwalking into an undermining of it because it seems to be cowed by the Green...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: As I will be moving amendment No. 12, should I not get an opportunity to speak again? Is amendment No. 12 in this grouping?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Unfortunately, I have forgotten what I want to say. I was waiting too long. In regard to the Minister of State's comment that one cannot make a submission about zoning when the strategy is being considered, I do not accept that zoning and strategic considerations are separate in the way he claims. He referred to jobs as a strategic issue but the question of zoning land for industrial use...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: It seems the Minister and his officials have attempted to deal with the issue in my amendment No. 6 in his amendment No. 4. I spoke on this on Committee Stage and mentioned that Ms Karin Dubsky of Coastwatch Ireland raised the issue with us. I may have asked if the Government was in discussion with Coastwatch Ireland to deal with the issues she raised and which we raised through our...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "and (c) the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (i): "(i) development consisting of the carrying out of any of the works referred to in the Land Reclamation Act, 1949, not being either works comprised in the fencing or enclosure of land which has been open to or used by the public within...