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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no substance from the Tánaiste and no answers either.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is supposed to be questions to the Taoiseach and not questions to the Opposition.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that can be given to a person (details supplied); and if night-time care will be allocated to them, given the circumstances. [8451/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 60: In page 42, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(7) Where the Minister proposes to make regulations under this section that relate to developments in a Gaeltacht area, he or she shall, before making the regulations,consult with the Minister for the Gaeltacht, the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta, and Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am working my way through my note. I have amendments Nos. 1115 to 1117, inclusive, and Nos. 1138 and 1139. This would include board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta. It is particularly important as we are promised the imminent return of direct elections at some stage this year. We are told it will be the same time as the elections but we do not have the legislation yet to give...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try and capture them all. Amendment No. 175 would ensure that the national planning framework has regard to language plans. Amendment No. 192 would ensure that the reference to the distinct amenities, character and vitality of rural areas is expanded to cover rural and Gaeltacht areas. Amendment No. 193 is again from Conradh na Gaelige and refers to: ... protection of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Cathaoirleach can come back to me again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to them if needs be.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The definition of "language plans" is to be found in the Irish language legislation. There is, therefore, a specific definition, so when we talk about "language plans", we are using a legal term rather than just a concept. This is worth looking at again. These are things to have regard to in the language plans. Some of the language plans might not be advanced enough to have any major...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The group is amendments Nos. 137 to 167, inclusive. I will not withdraw these amendments because we have not seen the change. While I accept the proposal for a priority area, that is at a lower level than the national plan in some ways.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It should be at all levels. That is the problem.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No more so than this road and that road, or whatever else. The national planning framework does not have to be so specific as to which road or development will happen. This would be a guideline to influence planners, the local authority and the development plans at that level. If they take it into account that there is a need to address language planning, the statement would be set out...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 192 to 194, inclusive,208 and 209 relate to the national planning statements. I still believe that in this primary legislation - because that is what it is going to be - there needs to be clear statements at every level on what the role of planning is. It needs to be as much as it would for all of the other issues listed in that planning statement. I am still of the view...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Part of the reason for this proposal is the frustration of those who have tried to use Irish with the system. This came up in the Irish language committee when we were discussing planning in Gaeltacht areas. One of the questions we raised with the chief executive officers of the different councils that came before us was how many people in their planning sections had Irish. If I am in the...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The amendments relate to what the planning authority or commission, as the case may be, shall have regard to when performing its functions. The two amendments are very simple. Amendment No. 599 seeks to insert, after "protected structure", the words "or its integrity within the surrounding context". This is important when considering protected structures because they do not sit by...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 599 and 600 relate to obligations on the planning authorities and the commission to have regard to certain matters. The matter we are trying to introduce here is to ensure that the context in which a protected structure exists, and not just the structure itself, is also taken into account when the planning authorities and commission are making any findings or reviewing...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The context is important and that is why we are trying to include it, in what is a very short, six-word amendment that reads "its integrity within the surrounding context". These are two reasonable amendments that I hope the Minister will accept.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To come back to the other points, the Minister was talking about amendment No. 55, the previous amendment. Perhaps I did not make the point as well as I should have. The specific provision in the legislation proposed has to do with matters to which the planning authority and commission shall have regard. It is not about pre-empting the decision of the planning authority or the commission....

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would the Minister consider inserting "the sole reason" into the wording when he is changing it? At the moment it is just "reasons". I know he is changing the wording.