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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 42: In page 40, to delete line 11 and substitute the following: “(iii) a permission granted under section 9 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, or”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 43: In page 40, to delete line 13 and substitute the following: “(c) Chapter 6 State authority development within the meaning of Part 4,”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 44: In page 40, to delete line 30 and substitute the following: “(iii) a permission granted under section 9 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, or”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 45: In page 40, to delete line 32 and substitute the following: “(c) Chapter 6 State authority development within the meaning of Part 4,”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: One item I did not get to respond to was that raised by Deputy Matthews. He made a very important point regarding the national biodiversity action plan. Due to the engagement we had on Committee Stage, we have strengthened that. It will be seen that, in amendment No. 118, I propose a definition of the national biodiversity action plan in Part 3, which matches the terminology used in the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Aontaím leis sin. Ní dúirt mise é sin ar chor ar bith. Dúirt an Teachta Healy-Rae é sin.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Ar an bpointe deireanach, b’fhéidir nár chuala an Teachta cad a bhíomar ag plé sa choiste faoin ár dteanga. Aontaíonn gach Teachta atá mar bhall den choiste go bhfuil sí an-tábhachtach ar fad. Cuirfidh mé síos dhá leasuithe tábhachtacha ar son ceantair Gaeltachta ar fud an Stáit chun pleanáil speisialta a chur...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are discussing them all now. That is fine. Those amendments were tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. Amendment Nos. 29 and 144 were tabled by Deputy Matthews and amendment No. 39 was tabled by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. Amendments Nos. 14 to 16, inclusive, 18, 20 and 32 all seek to change English terms used in respect of an coimisiún pleanála to...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is Part 17.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 13: In page 29, to delete lines 11 to 16 and substitute the following: “ “approved local newspaper” means, in relation to the functional area of a planning authority— (a) a publication (other than an online publication or online version of a publication) that— (i) circulates in the functional area of the planning authority, and...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have outlined the rationale for amendment No. 1. It may have caught some of the Deputies by surprise that the debate on the Bill had started but I was operating to the schedule. What we are looking at here, which is very important, is the extension of the RPZs for another year while we look at what other rent controls might be introduced. We are using the Bill as a vehicle to do that....

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On Deputy Ó Broin's first question, the provision allows for exactly what he has outlined. Taking Carrigaline as an example that has been raised in the House, the passing of this provision would give me, as Minister, the power to add the portion in question to an RPZ even though it would not, on its own, meet the criteria for an RPZ. On Deputy O'Callaghan's question, we will see...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot accept the two proposed amendments to amendment No. 1 tabled by Deputies Boyd Barrett, Ó Broin, Ó Snodaigh, Gould and Cian O'Callaghan with the aim of adding references in the Long Title to give effect to international conventions and directives of the European Parliament and of the Council and to a number of other enactments that are referred to in the Bill but not...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Okay. I have moved the amendment and I have spoken to the others in the group. I will come back in if need be.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: To be helpful, Deputy Farrell moved Deputy Ó Broin's amendment.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I take it that the same applies. It is seven minutes and two minutes.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1: In page 27, to delete lines 5 to 9 and substitute the following: “An Act to consolidate and revise the law relating to planning and development; to provide for proper planning and sustainable development in the interests of the common good; to provide for the licensing of events and control of funfairs; for those purposes to repeal and replace the Planning...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects of the Guidelines including setback distance, noise, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. The aim of the review is to strike an appropriate balance between addressing the concerns of local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he/she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end, my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 368 and 395 together. I received the Report of the Housing Commission on 8 May and published it in full very soon thereafter on 22 May. The Commission’s work has taken two-an-a-half years to conclude, culminating in a 400 plus page report (including appendices), and 83 recommendations and 540 or so actions and sub-actions. Accordingly, it requires...