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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 129: In page 96, to delete line 11.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 130: In page 97, between lines 23 and 34 to insert the following: “(15) Where a regional assembly demonstrates that the regional spatial and economic strategy is consistent with the National Planning Framework and the National Maritime Planning Framework and to be brought into alignment with a National Planning Statement would lead to inconsistency with either...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 131: In page 98, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(4) Where a provision is subject to a draft direction in accordance with subsection (2) but that provision is considered a protective measure such provision shall continue to have effect pending the decision of the Minister under section 40(4).”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 133: In page 103, to delete lines 15 to 22.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is an issue here, which is that we have been told this is plan-led development. The framework is plan-led development; the Minister's statement I regard as not really as credible as the planning framework. The language, "national planning policies and measures", sounds really weighty and authoritative and so on, but if we track it back to section 25, it is literally just a way of...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to indicate our support for Senator Warfield's amendment. I apologise as I had mentioned 5,000 nightclubs being reduced to 85. This was an obvious exaggeration as the decrease was 500 to 85, which is still extraordinarily alarming. We will support the amendment put by the Labour Party Senators regarding the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Irish language in Gaeltacht...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 117 seeks to strengthen the language around social development in a similar manner to amendment No. 65. It includes the word "social", which performs slightly different work than does "cultural" by itself, even though I am a big fan of cultural and I know others have amendments in this section looking at the very important issue of cultural matters, cultural spaces and cultural...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 108: In page 73, line 1, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 109: In page 73, to delete lines 8 to 21, and substitute the following: “(4) The Minister shall,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 113: In page 74, line 38, after “Chapter” to insert “where such a National Planning Statement addresses the matters contained in such guidelines”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 87: In page 70, line 36, to delete "the Government" and substitute "both Houses of the Oireachtas".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 89: In page 71, to delete lines 10 to 12, and substitute the following: "(5) The Minister shall, within 10 days of publication under subsection (3), lay a copy of a National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation so published before each House of the Oireachtas and, if a resolution annulling the National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation is passed by...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 91: In page 71, to delete lines 21 and 22.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 92: In page 71, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(8) A National Planning Statement shall be consistent with the matters specified in section 21(2).".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 93: In page 71, to delete lines 23 to 25, and substitute the following: "(8) Any guidelines under section 52 of the Act of 2000 in force before the repeal of that section by section 6, shall continue in force until the full application of Part 10 or where a National Planning Statement is issued which provides an equal or greater level of protection.".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 97: In page 71, line 31, to delete "development plans".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 98: In page 71, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: "(d) the promotion of sustainable development— (i) to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions; (ii) to support adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; (iii) to achieve the national climate objective, and (iv) to support the circular economy strategy (within the meaning of...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 101: In page 72, line 17, after "conducive to" to insert "sustainable".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 102: In page 72, line 19, to delete "and transportation strategies" and substitute ", development and transportation strategies".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come in on a few of the Minister of State's responses. Let us tease things out for a minute. Senator McDowell was speaking about the national planning framework and the national planning statement. To be clear, I am in favour of plans and a national planning framework, with all the caveats and suggestions for changes I have made, but the section we are now discussing is a new...