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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 298: In page 95, line 21, to delete “2 working days” and substitute “5 working days”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 299: In page 95, line 36, to delete “shall, within 3 working days of receipt of the direction,” and substitute “shall, as soon as practicable,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 300: In page 96, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(18) The Minister may prescribe a period or periods that shall be disregarded for the purposes of reckoning any period referenced in this section.”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is only if one part of it has been quashed, as I understand it. The overall direction stays valid. It is just if one part of it is quashed. If part of a direction is quashed by a judicial review, then the other parts of it still stand.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: That is correct.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is new.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It brings clarity to what happens when there is a direction from judicial review proceedings. I am not sure if it was based on a previous case. It may be.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Again, I do not know. It is just to bring clarity.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The answer is that is not necessarily the case. It is more to give legal certainty.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 301: In page 96, line 27, to delete “plan” and substitute “strategy”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will first address amendment No. 302 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh, which seeks to amend section 40(2) of the Bill by changing the period for commencing a review of a development plan from eight years after the last plan to seven years. I cannot accept this amendment as it would have consequential implications for other periods set out in the Bill for the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I have.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: That is it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I can appreciate it. Certainly, having been involved in several development plan processes when they were for a five-year period, I know the role is important for elected members. However, we are moving to a ten-year timeframe now and it has knock-on implications for the development planning process. In particular, the 99 week period has now been extended, as the Deputy will be aware. The...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: There is an opportunity under the interim review of a plan. The Bill provides for it to happen "not earlier than 4 years and not later than 4 years and 9 months". Officials have listened to councillors and local authority staff to consider this in terms of what is appropriate. There is an opportunity at the interim review for one-term councillors to have an input. If the Deputy wants to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly. I attended the launch of the National University of Ireland, NUI, Maynooth, research into the role of elected members at local level. Certainly, we should all take cognisance of it. It is an important report. In some cases it may seem there has been a diminution of a councillor's role. In other cases, there has actually been an enhancement of the role in recent...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Could the Deputy run that question again?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: As I said, all plans have to be materially compliant with the regional strategies and the national planning framework, and there is the OPR as well.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: When I say flexibility, it does not give the flexibility to a point where it is maybe not convenient to do something, or it is conflicting with the objectives of another local authority.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The critical thing out of this is that it will come to a point where development plans will align with each other. The kick-off time periods will be the same around the country, so there will be co-ordination between planners in each local authority as they are going through their development plan process. It is important to have that flexibility there. Plus, it is the oversight. You go...