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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (12 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has made any progress in relation to a situation (details supplied) where a victim of a crime has not been given the release date of the convicted person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25762/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (12 Jun 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 149. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is any progress update from the high-level stakeholder group on dog control given the recent increase in dog attacks; if this group is due to write a report on the issue of dog attacks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25763/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: How much longer have we for the debate?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak to a few of my amendments relating to the national planning framework and its objectives. In many ways, what we as a country set as our objectives in the national planning framework could not be more important as it speaks to the type of country in which we will live in future years. This is at the crux of the planning system. I want one of the objectives in our national...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 124: )

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

Cian O'Callaghan: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I indicated.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I understand that. It is no problem.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is no problem at all. I was beginning to wonder whether some of the Deputies were proposing the community gardens should be placed on roadways, based on the way the conversation was going. I thought that was a very radical suggestion. Some radical environmentalists subscribe to that idea of guerilla gardening, so perhaps that is where that discussion was going. Returning to the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to respond briefly. What is happening in regard to declarations and exempted development is the Minister is taking the public out of the process, which is wrong, and he is substituting a very limited number of environmental NGOs under very specific criteria. Not only does it shut out other environmental NGOs and organisations but it shuts out the entire public, which puts the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is, of course, better that one of these organisations would be able to get a declaration than not. Effectively, however, unless the party concerned is the landowner, has the consent of the landowner or is one of the organisations specified, such a party will now be shut out of the process. It may be the case that people could be in an NGO or have access or contacts that would enable them...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is fine; I thought we were going to get a good contribution on exempted development. Perhaps I should not invite it. I will speak to amendment No. 60, which is in my name. This amendment proposes that environmentally significant development would not be exempted. The Bill lists areas where planning permission or public participation are not required. Significantly, it states that...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Article 8 of the Aarhus Convention on consultation on legislation goes way beyond land use regulations where a strategic environmental assessment is required. The Minister might address that point in the context of what he said. On amendment No. 47 and the use of the word "expedient", will the Minister elaborate on why he feels that "necessary" is insufficient there? He is saying the use...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I mentioned Article 8 of the Aarhus Convention around consultation.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but the Minister did not answer my specific point about Article 8 of the Aarhus Convention on consultation on legislation. With respect, the Minister made a general point that the Bill is all Aarhus-compliant, but I am bringing up specifics and asking the Minister to address them.

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

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 46: In page 41, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “ “Urban Waste-Water Treatment Directive” means Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment;”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 34: In page 37, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “ “Public Participation Directive” means Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment and amending with regard to public...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am also very concerned about how wide-ranging the definition of "statutory undertaker" is. It could include contractors. On newspaper publications and circulation, our amendment states: ... where the prescription of either publication in paragraph (a) or (b) above, prioritises the effective accessibility of the publication given factors including its circulation figures in the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On my amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 597, I would welcome more clarity from the Minister on the definition of "statutory undertaker". This is a significant section in the context of State authority development emergency orders effectively allowing for emergency works. I am not exactly clear on the significance of that wording. If the Minister could provide an explanation, it would be...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 12: In page 27, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “ “Access to Environmental Information Directive” means Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EC;”.