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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 15: In page 42, to delete lines 38 to 40, and in page 43, to delete lines 1 to 6.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is important. I will signal that what things are used for can matter. One area where that has been important relates to cultural activity, where there is a change of use from cultural activity, which may be a commercial cultural activity. When things are given planning permission, it is often because it involves a look to how they will contribute to the area and space. In San...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am happy for the Minister of State to come back in to reply to this issue and I can then come back to the others.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a number of amendments in this section. Amendment No. 20 seeks to insert a new subsection into section 8. This would provide that the Minister should, following consultation with the Housing Commission and the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, Údarás na Gaeltachta and Gaeltacht language planning officers, lay a report before both Houses of...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I agree with Senator McDowell. I have highlighted the inadequacies of the measures in this section as they relate to Article 6.1.(b) of the Aarhus Convention. The attempts to address that issue are inadequate. This is not the only issue, however. The wording in section 9(6) effectively provides that almost any class of development in which the issue of environmental impact assessments has...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Regarding amendments Nos. 27 and 23, the Minister is using the example of having the environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment or the decision that they are not required or required as a proxy for environmental significance when they are not an adequate proxy. They are tools that are useful regarding considering environmental significance but they are not in themselves a...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 20: In page 44, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(5) The Minister shall, following consultation with the Housing Commission, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Údarás na Gaeltachta, and Gaeltacht Language Planning Officers, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas within six months of the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 23: In page 45, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: “required, or where the activity may have a significant impact on the environment. (4) (a) The Minister shall prescribe via regulation the screening criteria requirements to determine if an activity may still have a significant impact on the environment where screening...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 25: In page 46, line 6, to delete “and”. I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 46, line 10, to delete “permitted.” and substitute “permitted, and”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 27: In page 46, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(c) where an environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment has not been required under any such enactment, but the activity may have a significant impact on the environment, public participation has been provided for prior to the authorisation or permitting of the activity.”....

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 28: In page 46, to delete lines 21 to 26.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 29: In page 46, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Declaration on development, exempted development, etc. 10. (1) If any question arises as to what, in any particular case, is or is not development or is or is not exempted development within the meaning of this Act, any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, request in writing from the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Have I skipped one?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is great. I am happy to have a rest. That concludes my set of amendments within this grouping.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The more we hear, the more concerned I get. We have heard all about the issue of exempted development, whereby the Minister is now going to make these regulations, although we do not really know what will be in them or what categories will be exempted. When I say "exempted", we all want a lot of building to happen but that is skipping the planning process. Again, we might as well throw the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 32 In page 47, to delete lines 33 to 37, and substitute the following: “(e) an organisation, group or association— (i) whose primary purpose, or whose constitution includes objects, which relate to the promotion of environmental protection of relevance to the request concerned, and (ii) which shall additionally provide a simple written statement...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 34: In page 48, line 11, after “fee,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move Amendment No. 35: In page 48, line 20 after “fee,” to insert “any person,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 36: In page 49, line 11 after “requests,” to insert “make reasonable attempts to”.