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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am sorry to interrupt the Deputy.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: As the time for this debate has expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with an Order of the Dáil of 8 October: "That the Seanad amendments not disposed of are hereby agreed to in Committee and agreement to the amendments is accordingly reported to the House." Is that agreed?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There is no point of order. Is Deputy Boyd Barrett finished speaking?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Okay, so we are moving on. I have two more speakers on my list. We will just check when the debate is closing. I have a contradictory time down.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: That is what I thought. I was reading it incorrectly.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There are still three speakers on my list. I call an Teachta Eoin Ó Broin. There are four minutes left.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There has been leniency given all night by the Ceann Comhairle.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to allow it. It will be helpful if Deputy Boyd Barrett directs his points to the group of amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: What did the Minister just say?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: This will be my only contribution tonight. I support the amendment relating to the Aarhus Convention and put forward by Deputy Ó Broin and others. The Aarhus Convention was ratified way back in 2012. Its purpose was to empower the citizen with three major pillars, namely, access to information, public participation and access to justice. In my experience as a councillor and a Member...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. In terms of the residents' associations, they have to be formed. There is a certain period of time. This is my interpretation of it.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I do not sit on a committee and I would like more time to look at this. I am guided by what I have been told and what I have read. This is an absolute insult. It is blatantly against the spirit and law of the Aarhus Convention that was signed back in 2012. If we were seriously interested in improving the planning laws in Ireland, we would have properly resourced them and made them robust....
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: A precedent has been set here.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I did not take exception and it is not politics. I am in the Chair, and the conversation and debate should be relevant to what is going on. That is what I am doing now as well. I remind the Deputy that we are discussing Seanad amendments Nos. 1 to 18, inclusive.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: This morning I reminded the Deputy that we-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: No, no.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please. In my role as Chair, I asked you to be relevant to the topic, as I ask everybody. I asked you not to make it personal. I am asking you again to direct your comments towards the amendments. I am giving great latitude.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: A little bit.