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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not the point. It is how do you fit in-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will be very brief. I appreciate the couple of questions. I am not going to mention any more, and I think we have covered this well. With regard to amendment No. 1130, again, understanding it, there is no issue with definitions as such. They are in other Acts as well. This one would be a Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media function and is in relation to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On that very point, I should mention that the OPR already assesses all development plans, including development plans that have Gaeltacht areas in them. It does not set them aside. It does that already.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Understood, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will get back to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have pretty much said most of what I am going to say to be very honest with the Deputy. It has been a good discussion and I will be coming back on Report Stage. It is better to channel Gaeltacht planning matters through a development plan. I will bring forward a proposal to have priority area plans as well. Right now, the OPR still has oversight over all development plans and it makes...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have nothing further to say. We have dealt with it. In response to Deputy Ó Broin, there are four or five subgroupings within the overall grouping. They are not as large as this one. With the Deputies' permission, I suggest discussing amendments Nos. 441, 452, 470, 486, 497, 516, 551, 555 to 557, inclusive, and 569, which have been tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Aontaím leis sin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: These amendments propose additional consultation requirements with a wide range of specified bodies that have some role or function relating to our teanga. These proposed consultation requirements fall across several areas of the Bill, including in the preparation of draft development plans, which is obviously open anyway, a variation of existing plans, the preparation of urban area plans,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Údarás, as the Deputy said, is already in the regulations. In the case of An Coimisinéir Teanga agus Foras na Gaeilge, that should also be looked at in the context of the regulations, and I will have a look at that. The language planning officers sit within each of the local authorities, so they should be, and are, part of the development plan. In counties Donegal, Galway,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I would have thought so but we can clarify that. I understand the Deputy's logic.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendments Nos. 440, 451, 469, 485, 496, 515, 550, 554 and 568 are in the names of Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Cathasaigh.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On page 30, “Gaeltacht” is defined as “a Gaeltacht area within the meaning of the Gaeltacht Act 2012” or “a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area within such meaning”. If we were to include other areas, such as within Cork city, Galway or Dublin, that would add a further layer. As I said in response to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, I will make sure that those...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: These are defined places and there are not hundreds of them but 16, which I have just gone through. One would absolutely expect the Department to have regard to them in any event. It certainly should, and it will. Language development plans and plans for the language, that is, not development plans from a planning perspective, are also in place and they are clearly defined, as are the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: But that is something that by way of regulation-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I do want to get clarification for the Deputy. We will look at that by way of the regulations as well because I do want to make sure that those who should be consulted are consulted. The point I am making is that if you are a language planning officer in a local authority in any of those areas, you will know where your líonraí Gaeilge are and you will know what you are responsible...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy can move his amendment and that is absolutely fine. It is fully up to him but I am saying that I will come back to him prior to Report Stage and will report back on those. He can resubmit it on Report Stage if he wishes but I will have a more detailed response on it there. There is some merit in what has been put forward by Deputies and I would like to see if we can meet them in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot accept them right now.