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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the officials give the committee a little more information on the transitional mechanisms and what shape that might take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I correct that nothing in the Bill significantly changes the current enforcement regimes in operation under the existing Act?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I appreciate the clarification. The threshold that a local authority has to meet for a successful enforcement in the courts often incentivises local authorities to take pragmatic approaches and try to get the issue resolved to the best of their ability short of going to court. Was any consideration given to reviewing or reconsidering that? I will not name it but a high-profile development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Was there not an argument to try to have a portion of the process that would be civil and a portion that would be criminal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I also asked about Part 6, Traveller accommodation and the planning-specific elements of the review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is those two, section 183 and Part 8.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There was no consideration of the recommendations, for example, on potential changes to the Part 8 planning process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That does not need primary legislation and could be done through regulations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the position with Part 6 of this Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies. The question is, a little bit like the enforcement section of the Bill, is it just literally a transposition of the existing legal codes, such as the environmental assessment section, or are there changes or improvements in there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Death to acronyms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are having a lot of discussion about judicial review, and it is important, but it is important also to remember that less than 3% of planning applications get judicially reviewed. I am not picking Mr. Hogan up on something, but he did mention earlier that judicial reviews should not become a normal part of the planning process. It is important that this committee emphasises that they are...

Public Art Mural (Exempted Development) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 600 of 2001) to provide for exemptions from planning permission for certain categories of public art murals where such work has artistic or cultural merit, has the permission of the owner of the building or structure on which it is displayed, is not a commercial...

Public Art Mural (Exempted Development) Bill 2022: First Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the case of a preschool (details supplied) whose staff have been advised that they will have no access to their current accommodation from September 2023; and if there is any support or assistance available from her Department to ensure that the school can remain open. [5304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions brought under section 14 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, for each year since its enactment. [5311/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) is under a standalone review. [5318/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff that have been working in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology year on year since 2016 in two teams; and the number of clients that have been seen by each separate discipline in the same time period, including a breakdown (details supplied). [5517/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for their presentations. There are seven areas of the general scheme on which I am interested in getting the responses of both the IEN and Wind Energy Ireland. They are not going to get to respond to all seven in the seven minutes I have, so maybe the delegates would take note of them and correspond with the committee on them. They would be of interest to all members. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. There is a six-week requirement in head 7(4), pertaining to response times to the proposed ministerial designations.