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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----a commitment that we would go back to the OPC about the correct reference. It references the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 but that was updated by the 2021 Act. We have committed to going back and looking at that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: This section relates specifically to environment and climate change. Deputy Ó Broin is well aware that a substantive amount of legislation in that area has been brought in by the Government, which has updated the development Act itself. It is not a question that we are coming to something where there has been a vacuum for many years; it is quite the reverse. There has been a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We are going to go back. That commitment was given by my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have grouped the Government amendments, Nos. 405, 406, 415 and 416. Amendments Nos. 399, 404, 408, 409, 412 and 413 are grouped together. They are all Sinn Féin amendments. We grouped amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive, 407 and 414. There are, effectively, two groupings for Opposition amendments and one for Government amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not have a huge amount to read out, and the amendments are grouped. With the members' indulgence, I will go through them. Is that okay?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: To recap on the amendments, there is amendment No. 399. What is the second one?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy is including amendment No. 409 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 409 is in the Deputy's group, actually.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. Sorry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. That is correct. I will now address amendments Nos. 399, 404, 408, 409, 412 and 413, tabled jointly by Deputies Eoin Ó Broin, Thomas Gould and Aengus Ó Snodaigh. Amendment No. 399 seeks to amend section 48 regarding the obligation to prepare a strategy for the conservation of natural and built heritage as part of a development plan. The amendment requires that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: They are all covered in that then.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Just by way of additional information, to date, the officials have identified eight Report Stage amendments as a result of reference to the historic and archaeological heritage Acts that we-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a timing issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: On the Deputy's latter point, we are working with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to cover that range. On the issue of public access, we might be able to look it on Report Stage but it should be covered where appropriate. It cannot be that there is open access to everything but we will look at that on Report Stage. On amendments Nos. 408 and 409, we believe the definition of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 to 23, inclusive, together. Under Housing for All, there is a policy objective to increase and improve housing options for older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence. Housing for All builds on and takes forward the ongoing actions in 'Housing Options for Our Ageing Population' policy statement from 2019, published jointly by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The 2015 Act is referred to and the 2000 Act was amended for the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Here, planning authorities are required to prepare a strategy but it also includes the requirement, under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, to produce and prepare climate action plans. Section 47(3) states, "A planning authority shall seek to ensure the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It if is of help, I will give an indication of the groupings.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is covered under the definition of a "monument" in the historic heritage Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is explicitly covered.