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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Was it raised? Did Mr. Kehoe raise with the Department in any of the advisory forums that section 5 declarations were becoming time consuming and difficult because I note section 8 now excludes a member of the public from taking a section 5?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: That is great. I thank Mr. Kehoe for that. On public engagement, one of the key reasons we were doing this consolidated plan arose from one of the suggestions to take the conflict away from the application stage and put the conflict, if there was to be any, at the plan-making stage. That way everybody is aware when the plan is made that this is how their area will develop or what they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Is Ms Henchy indicating?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I think Ms Henchy is right about public engagement. As councillors, we always told people when the county development plan or local area plan was available and asked to hear their views. Sometimes we get very good submissions but they are not relevant to the local area plan. They are relevant to some other plan. How do we get more people involved at that stage? How do we explain, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: That is when you stay off social media.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: There are good planning systems.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Does anybody review the processes local authorities go through when they are doing the county development plan? Mr. Minton mentioned good practice in Roscommon and Mayo. Does the OPR carry out that function?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Minton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I have a couple of final questions myself. If the county development plan goes to a ten-year plan, do our guests believe it would be helpful if there was an ongoing monitoring of the county development plan, like we do monitoring of the regional plan? What if we had ongoing monitoring of a county development plan with this feedback to councillors? Often, and I am sure many of our guests...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I was going to turn to the CCMA to ask about resourcing on that also. Obviously, we know that a great amount of stuff falls on the local authority. Whenever we decide to do something, we will get the local authority to look after that; whatever it might be. I also feel that a great deal of stuff falls on the planning departments because they are dealing with residential zoned land taxes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I call Ms Bannon to speak now, please, and then Councillor Sheahan, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Without putting her on the spot, but can Ms Bannon tell us which section that is of the Bill, of the 738 pages of it, she is talking about there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: We will come back to Ms Bannon as I believe Councillor Sheahan wanted to come in on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Is that the monitoring of the county plans to feed into the regionals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I call Councillor Sheahan to speak now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Does Ms Bannon wish to come back on that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: We could probably perfect that a bit more to achieve what we are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: Is there not a requirement for councillors to report back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: I refer to the joint area plans across two local authorities. Is what is proposed there an improvement on what is there at the moment? I am thinking of my own local authority with Dún Laoghaire to the north of it. The areas are very close together. They are almost one urban area but divided by county borders. Do the joint area plans offer better opportunities for councillor feedback...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)
Steven Matthews: There is no one else indicating to ask questions but if anyone has any last comments I would be happy to take them.