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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would say that he would like to say that they should have been published years ago but he could not possibly say that in a committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I return to the issue of compact growth and will pick up where Mr. Hussey left off. It seems part of the problem is the definition within the NPF. Looking, for example, at recent residential development in the greater Dublin area, GDA, one could argue that the vast majority of it is compact growth as per the definitions in the NPF. However, most of it is not really compact growth in terms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Hogan and his team have an open ear as they finalise their amendments on any of these issues. In terms of going beyond just raising some concerns, are there either forms of language or ways of measuring this that could assist in improving it further? I take Mr. Hussey's point that it is an improvement on what was there previously but, thinking about Dublin again, there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final question which might act as a segue onto what Deputy Leddin is likely to raise, and rightly so. There is also an interaction between compact growth and balanced regional development as it is set out. Has the advisory committee a view on how those things should best interact? Are there areas within the current draft where it would like to see further movement or change to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make an observation and then put two questions to Mr. Hogan. I have a lot of sympathy with Deputy Leddin’s point. My colleagues from the regional cities will be making exactly the same point. I want to add an additional observation for Mr. Hogan and his team and it builds on my questions to the Climate Change Advisory Council. It is that there is also an issue about where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That essentially means that commencement of the new section is not going to happen until this review is concluded, subject to a decision of the incoming government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Walsh for that. I might conclude with a request for whomever is on the next committee, because none of us may be here at that stage. The version the Department gave us after our previous meeting, which included the tracked changes, was brilliant. It made our lives so much easier. I really urge the Department to provide the members of the committee under the Thirty-fourth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is the total cost between the two options as opposed to just the difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will see it when the report is published. I take it the total cost will be in there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For purposes of clarity, the comparison is between a serviced site at the edge of Adamstown versus an unserviced greenfield site in Leixlip. I do not mean it is those actual locations, but is that the comparison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Some are more like the City Edge project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In terms of pace, is the issue the number of applications or the length of time to process the applications or both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The problem is not the number of applications but the length of time and the decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are ending on all the good news basically. That is great.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if officials from his Department acted on information (details supplied) to prevent the transit of weapons through Irish airspace in violation of the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Regulations (5 Nov 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the Irish and EU legislation regulating the use of heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, on Irish roads; whether all relevant EU legislation on this matter has been transposed; and to set out in summary form the principal provisions of this legislation and the sections of the legislation dealing with enforcement of HGV restrictions....