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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: I move amendment No. 69: In page 25, to delete lines 22 to 24 and substitute the following: “(6) The Minister shall, in preparing, amending or revoking policy directives under this section— (a) act consistently with— (i) Article 1 of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive establishing marine spatial planning to promote within the State, the sustainable growth of...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 70: In page 25, lines 23 and 24, to delete all words from and including “have” in line 23 down to and including line 24 and substitute the following: “(a) act consistently with the matters listed under section 6(3)(a) to which the Minister is to act consistently with, and have regard to the matters which the Minister is to have regard to under...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 71: In page 25, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: "(8) The Oireachtas, when considering any proposed policy directive, or amendment or revocation of a guidelines under this section, either within a committee of the Oireachtas, or when either House considers motions in relation to a proposed maritime policy statement shall act consistently with the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am always suspicious when I am told something is simply "technical" because in planning everything is technical and has an import. Will the Minister of State give us some concrete or indicative examples of the kinds of planning permission we are talking about?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Under what set of rules would they have been granted before? Again, this is just my way of getting the Minister of State to put this information on the public record.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It takes in planning applications and approvals under the existing regime for the foreshore.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They would have been granted by local authorities.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Given we have only a few minutes left, I reserve the right to come back on some of the latter amendments in this group as I will only get to the first few. Again, some of my questioning is really just an invitation for the Minister of State to explain the intricacies of this process a little more on the public record. Most of us have experience of terrestrial planning and we know the...

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; —...