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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: Next week, it will be a different thing.

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

Darragh O'Brien: If -I am saying "if" with a big health warning - it is not too onerous, we have them and can go through them here as we are. If the Deputy leaves that with me, we will see what is possible. I am conscious that-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: Can the Deputy let me finish for a second? When we come out of these committee meetings, obviously a lot of additional work is required in advance of the next day too so I want to see what is actually possible. We will try to be as helpful as we can.

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

Darragh O'Brien: We are all working off the same lists.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will see what can be done.

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

Darragh O'Brien: We have discussed amendment No. 30 already but the next logical cluster contained amendments Nos. 355 to 357, inclusive, 360, 369, 371, 373, 380, 421, 900 and 901 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. There are three more amendments in the grouping, namely, amendment No. 368, tabled by Deputies O'Callaghan agus Ó Cathasaigh, and then amendments Nos. 894 and 899,...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I can. I can go through them all but-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: Okay, let me go through them. For fear of boring the members to death-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: I cannot say the feeling is mutual. These amendments seek to further merge additional matters - as we have discussed some of this, members will have to bear with me - in relation to the Irish language into the context of development plans through strategies for sustainable development and regeneration, strategies relating to economic development, strategies relating to creation,...

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 really quick rather than leave that hanging. I will mention couple of things and I will endeavour to be brief. To deal with Deputy Ó Snodaigh's point, we might look again at chapter 1 of Part 7 on page 403. I would contest that it is well covered there in having "regard to the overall housing needs of the population of its functional area". The national planning statement...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I am just saying we have to be an-chúramach faoi sin because there is an equality aspect to it as well. It is one island and one country. There are differences within it. I have seen it on the ground. I have seen how it is being managed with local authorities that have been interested, but we have got to be careful in that regard as well. We may be putting one person ahead of...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I know that; I am just saying that is the complexity.

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

Darragh O'Brien: I will mention a couple of things we are doing. As I said to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh earlier with regard to the affordable housing, we are well advanced in An Rinn. That is working well. I see the affordable housing fund being utilised there. The ratios with regard to Údarás na Gaeltachta and its ability to be able to sell land is something that is being worked through. The...

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

Darragh O'Brien: With regard to holiday homes or homes that are not used all year round, I know from friends of mine who are in the Gaeltacht that many of those are family homes of people who have returned to the area. There have been far too many, I get that too, but they are homes. It is not just to say these are people coming from the Gaeltacht or from Germany or France. Many of those homes the Deputy...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Níl.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Údarás na Gaeltachta is doing work in conjunction with it. Thankfully, we are seeing, as Deputy Ó Snodaigh stated earlier, an increase of investment in jobs in Gaeltacht areas. That is happening because of the work of Údarás na Gaeltachta in conjunction with our local authorities. As I said, the economic strategy is central to any development plan. We will add the...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, it is amendments Nos. 430 and 431. As I said, for clarification and to correct the record, both amendments relate to the publication of notices relating to development plans. That is provided for under section 10 of the Official Languages Act, but I will see if we can do anything additional on Report Stage. We just need to look into it a little more. That is all.

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

Darragh O'Brien: That amendment relates to the same issue. These subgroups are informal.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 390 is listed in this overall group. It is something we will look at. It relates to discussions on the priority area plans we had earlier. Amendments Nos. 430 and 431 are slightly different.