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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 117 seeks to strengthen the language around social development in a similar manner to amendment No. 65. It includes the word "social", which performs slightly different work than does "cultural" by itself, even though I am a big fan of cultural and I know others have amendments in this section looking at the very important issue of cultural matters, cultural spaces and cultural...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 108: In page 73, line 1, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 109: In page 73, to delete lines 8 to 21, and substitute the following: “(4) The Minister shall,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 113: In page 74, line 38, after “Chapter” to insert “where such a National Planning Statement addresses the matters contained in such guidelines”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 87: In page 70, line 36, to delete "the Government" and substitute "both Houses of the Oireachtas".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 89: In page 71, to delete lines 10 to 12, and substitute the following: "(5) The Minister shall, within 10 days of publication under subsection (3), lay a copy of a National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation so published before each House of the Oireachtas and, if a resolution annulling the National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation is passed by...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 91: In page 71, to delete lines 21 and 22.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 92: In page 71, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(8) A National Planning Statement shall be consistent with the matters specified in section 21(2).".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 93: In page 71, to delete lines 23 to 25, and substitute the following: "(8) Any guidelines under section 52 of the Act of 2000 in force before the repeal of that section by section 6, shall continue in force until the full application of Part 10 or where a National Planning Statement is issued which provides an equal or greater level of protection.".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 97: In page 71, line 31, to delete "development plans".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 98: In page 71, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: "(d) the promotion of sustainable development— (i) to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions; (ii) to support adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; (iii) to achieve the national climate objective, and (iv) to support the circular economy strategy (within the meaning of...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 101: In page 72, line 17, after "conducive to" to insert "sustainable".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 102: In page 72, line 19, to delete "and transportation strategies" and substitute ", development and transportation strategies".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come in on a few of the Minister of State's responses. Let us tease things out for a minute. Senator McDowell was speaking about the national planning framework and the national planning statement. To be clear, I am in favour of plans and a national planning framework, with all the caveats and suggestions for changes I have made, but the section we are now discussing is a new...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As we go into the debate on amendments on the national planning statement, it is important that we first understand what the national planning statement is. We were speaking earlier about the NPF. That is an appropriate thing. It is the idea of having a planning framework under which we figure out how planning will work across the country. It has a vision and different checks and balances...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 82: In page 69, line 24, to delete “if necessary”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 79: In page 69, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(f) the Climate Change Advisory Council,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 80: In page 69, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(h) the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 75: In page 67, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(4) For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (3)(b)(iv) shall not include fossil fuel infrastructure or commercial data centres.".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 76: In page 67, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(4) For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (3)(b)(iv) shall not include LNG infrastructure, other fossil fuel infrastructure or data centres.".