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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is the only State-wide plan so that is a fair caveat. Let me get back to the detailed point because this is important. With a county development plan, for example, we have all the land uses mapped out and agreed. This is pertinent to the session we will have with the other Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, around marine protected areas, because until we have those or the interim...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important discussion. Pausing it at this point-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is as substantive a section as the previous one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual remuneration and expenses allowance per member of the Climate Change Advisory Council in tabular form. [51439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Functions (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to establish the necessary statistical capacity to track material flow in Ireland; and if he will under the forthcoming circular economy legislation commit to setting national material flow targets. [51440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the recently announced comprehensive review of planning legislation; the details on those that are involved in the group conducting the review; the terms of reference; the timeline for completion of the review; and if there will be an opportunity for third party and Oireachtas Committee on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a requirement for a veterinarian to be present at all greyhound racetracks when greyhound trials are taking place; if there is a requirement for all greyhound trials to be recorded or if unofficial greyhound trials take place at greyhound stadiums that are not registered; the number of injured greyhounds recorded in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (20 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a request from a person (details supplied) to extend the scope of the Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51442/21]

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The purpose of tabling this motion tonight was to highlight the abject failure of the Government to provide any immediate, urgent relief for those in the rental sector struggling with sky-high rents. The Government has been in office for nearly 15 months and none of the legislation to which the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, referred has done anything either to stop the upward movement of...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — average rents increased by 7 per cent in the last year according to the Q2 2021 Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) rent index report; — in the RTB rent index report nine counties experienced average rent increases of more than 10 per cent and all counties experienced average rent increases of more than 4 per cent; —...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not surprised on that one, but that is okay. Could the Minister of State at least reassure the committee what the intentions are in terms of the commencement timeline of those relevant sections of the relevant Part? While I understand the Minister of State saying he wants that necessary flexibility, if the committee was reassured of early commencement of those relevant sections, that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could I press the Minister of State for a little more detail? Given the heavy workload of officials and related legislation, does he expect substantial commencement within six months of the passing of the Bill or a year? What is the hope in that regard?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a final question on amendment No. 3. Will the Minister of State give us some indicative timeline of the review of the marine planning framework and how he and his officials expect that review to interact with some of the new innovations that will come into force as a result of the enactment of this Bill?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have three more hours today so I hope the Chairman can indulge me. Six years is a long time and one of the big issues with the marine planning framework arises because we did not have either the designation or even notional designations of the marine protected areas, MPAs. When that legislation comes through there will be a beginning of the process of designation of the MPAs. A...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 16, line 1, after “(6)” to insert “and (7)”. I might make a couple of general comments while speaking to these amendments. Given that so many amendments have been tabled, this will be the only time I will make general comments and I will thereafter stick to the specificity of the amendments as we go through them. To expedite...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(7) (a) Chapter 2 of Part 2 shall come into operation on enactment. (b) Chapter 3 and chapter 6 of Part 2, Part 4 and Part 8 shall not be commenced until after the review of the NMPF under section 17(2) has at least been completed, and in the event the Minister decides to commence any of these...