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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Amendment No. 233 not moved.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: The amendments go to the heart of social and affordable and cost-rental targets. To give the Minister of State an insight, in Cork, 32 cost-rental properties came on the market from Cork City Council. Some 900 people or couples applied for them. That is why targets are so important. Do not get me wrong. It probably changed the lives of those who got the 32 properties, but imagine the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My four amendments in this grouping refer to the regional, spatial and economic strategy. One of them relates to targets for social and affordable housing with reference to the provision in the section regarding the location and provision of housing in any national or regional population growth targets. We propose to include reference to targets around social and affordable housing. This...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a technical question on this grouping. With the Ceann Comhairle's indulgence, because it may be the last time I get to speak on the Bill, much to the delight of the Minister and his officials, I am sure, I will make a few general comments. In my time in the Oireachtas, having been here for eight years as a TD and over a decade, when I include my time as a parliamentary assistant, I...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: What is the Green Party's answer to them? It is that they have to adhere to what is in the policies going forward, but it costs money to do that and it makes homes an awful lot more expensive. That is the difficulty I have with what is contained in this Bill and that is what I want to highlight and let the people see. I want to let them understand that Government policy is driving up the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for the lesson on diggers, excavators and plant hire. I assure anyone who has an interest in that type of business that climate action will not affect it. Houses can be built with low-carbon technology. In fact, the housing committee is going to visit some low-carbon technology modular housing in September. I would be delighted to invite Deputy Healy-Rae to the...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Labhair mé faoi roinnt de na leasuithe atá curtha síos maidir le - mar a dúirt an tAire - ceist an teanga agus ceist na Gaeltachta ach go háirithe, ach rudaí eile dá leithéid freisin. Táimid ag déileáil leis an straitéis eacnamaíochta agus an straitéis réigiúnach agus ag déanamh iarrachta arís, leis na...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Emer Higgins: I would like to speak to amendment No. 232. I thank the Minister of State for tabling this amendment to the Bill. As we are all aware, this Bill is nearly 730 pages long. It is the third largest piece of legislation in the history of the State and is the culmination of a 15-month review of the planning system. Anyone who spent hours and weeks on end in committee rooms during the months of...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am speaking to the specific amendments we have before us now, and the one thing that jumps out at me from amendment No. 232 are the words "national policies and measures, including those prepared pursuant to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015". This proposed amendment is from the Minister and ties in with what we touched on earlier concerning costs. When we talk...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is just what he stands for and much of what comes out of his mouth that I do not like. I have nothing in the world against him personally, however. I would describe him as nothing but a gentleman.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: Nothing I am saying is any reflection on him personally. What I have just described earlier, though, is fact. It is true, and it is what the Minister of State's party propagates and tries to sell to the Irish people and to people around the rest of Europe. What I am saying is that to build a house, it is necessary to have an effect carbon-wise. There is a carbon footprint in a house. The...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Steven Matthews: That is rubbish. The Deputy is not even speaking to the amendments. Come on Ceann Comhairle, that is not on. I have listened to the Deputy's rubbish all night.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry now, but if the Deputy wants to pick a fight, he should go away and pick on somebody else because if he picks on me, he will lose it. I will tell the Deputy about more of the stupidity that has gone on in this regard over the years.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Okay. Can we focus on the amendments?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I want to be mannerly to the Ceann Comhairle-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----so I am not going to answer the tripe and rubbish coming out of the Deputy's mouth.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)
Joe O'Brien: If the Deputy does not want there to be tripe and rubbish, why does he not stop talking tripe and rubbish?