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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: However, Dublin Fingal East would not be included. Indeed, Dublin North-West, where we have Santry, which is really on the border, would not be included. Therefore, they are the ones that probably should be included in terms of being immediate neighbours.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will just make a point about the Dublin city councillors who are on the boundary as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: If they are representing Santry, which is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It helps.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sorry; that was my first question. The second question is an entirely different matter but is related to this section of the Bill. As I said to the Chair yesterday, this relates in many ways to Part 5 as a whole, and not just this section. I will just come in on it once. This section of the Bill is in Part 5, which pertains to developments at Dublin Airport. There have been issues...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is nothing in this Bill specifically that addresses those?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 888: In page 402, after line 34, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 5 Accessibility Assessment of Development 219. The purpose of this Chapter is to give effect to the State’s obligations under Article 4 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 889: In page 402, after line 34, to insert the following: “219. Where it is determined under section 203 that an environmental impact assessment is required, an accessibility impact assessment must also be carried out.”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Seeing we are on housing strategy, before the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donnell, moved, he gave his commitment twice that he would share the terms of reference of the ESRI study on housing need with the committee during Committee Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is great. I thank the Minister for that. I support amendment No. 892. It is an excellent amendment. There is a huge amount that can be done in the area of community-led housing organisations, housing co-operatives and community land trusts. I do not think anybody is suggesting that all housing supply will come from this, but it could be a hugely valuable part of housing supply....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will be just one minute then. Is that-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I agree absolutely with Deputy Boyd Barrett that "undue segregation" implies that there is a due level of segregation. I do not believe any of us agrees with that. That wording should go and the amendment should be accepted. There is an issue, which I have brought to the Minister's attention before, of on-site segregation where Part V units are designed in a different way. I gave an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. In a way amendments Nos. 897 and 898 are very similar. We have constructed them in slightly different ways. The Cathaoirleach has probably done it more efficiently. They both have the same objective. When I am speaking about amendment, No. 897 I also want to address amendment No. 909, which is related. Amendments Nos. 897 and 898 seek to include new language...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The thing about wording in legislation is that it should be explicit and clear. The whole rationale of this Bill was originally that we wanted to have something clear that is easy to follow. Why say houses and duplexes? Duplexes is in the legal definition of houses as well, so why say houses and duplexes but not apartments? It states, "in particular houses and duplexes". It is very hard...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Are duplexes included in that definition?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. Does that definition actually include apartment blocks specifically?