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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We use the term restoration primarily with regard to nature. Over the course of the past couple of years in particular, we have seen how it has become an essential component of biodiversity policy. Restoration of historic and heritage buildings is already embodied in the national architecture policy and other policies and strategies from our Department and others. We separately have the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 240, tabled by Deputy Duffy, seeks a similar amendment to expand the scope to include enhancement of the environment, as well as preservation and protection. While I cannot accept the amendment, I give a commitment to look at the other wording as per previous amendments. We will give consideration to it. It is not necessarily further expansion but it is different from...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 241 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh seeks to amend section 27 of the Bill which concerns the content of regional spatial and economic strategies, RSESs. The Bill provides that an RSES shall make provision for a number of specified matters, which include the preservation and protection of the environment and its amenities, including the archaeological,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In a similar vein, amendment No. 243 tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh seeks to include a reference to historic landscapes in section 27(1)(m). The subsection as drafted provides that an RSES shall make provision for a strategy relating to landscape and landscape character that co-ordinates the categorisation of landscapes in terms of their capacity to absorb...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 245, tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Smith, Kenny and O’Callaghan, seeks to amend section 27(1)(n)(iv). This section, as drafted, provides that a strategy relating to economic matters would include, among other things, identification of the means of maintaining and augmenting overall regional economic performance in accordance with...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I have two points in response. I did say that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, would look at amendments Nos. 151 and 154. The wording of amendment No. 154 is the "promotion of sustainable development consistent with a focus on improving human health and well-being and the establishment of metrics and criteria for evaluating these considerations and monitoring them within the life of the plan"....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We will give consideration to it, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree. We have given that commitment both on amendment No. 154, by the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and to see if wording could be included in section 27 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, I agree wholeheartedly, and it is not too dissimilar to the conversation we had earlier about cultural space. All of this is important. Good planning should lead to good outcomes and well-being for people. It should not be about the development of units. It has to be about place-making and creative and safe spaces for people of all ages. That includes how we design our public...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 249 seeks to prescribe an additional matter in respect of which a regional spatial and economic strategy must provide for, being a strategy relating to cultural matters. As I already stated in response to amendment No. 241, I do not consider this amendment to be required or necessary and, as such, I will not be accepting it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 266 seeks to amend section 30 concerning the process for the preparation or revision of regional spatial and economic strategies to include a requirement that such preparation, making or revision must be subject to an assessment in respect of its effect on water quality of water bodies in the region, in respect of requirements under Article 4 of the water framework directive....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 250 seeks to amend section 27 concerning the content of regional spatial and economic strategies and specifically in relation to the inclusion of integrated land use and transportation strategy in respect of city and metropolitan areas, where relevant. For this purpose, metropolitan area of a city is defined as the area consisting of the city and its surrounding area...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I accept the points. It is something we could look at in the context of the current regional spatial and economic strategy. It is something we can have a look at. We will give consideration to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 267 seeks to amend section 30 concerning the process for the preparation or revision of regional spatial and economic strategies. In the context of making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy, a regional assembly must have regard to any observations and recommendations received on foot of consultations carried out and to the report of the committees established...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 271, tabled jointly by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny, and Cian O’Callaghan, relates to section 32 and the publication procedure for a regional spatial and economic strategy. Section 32(1)(a) requires a regional assembly, within four weeks of making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy, to publish...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is for circumstances where a assembly has agreed a RSES and has to prepare the document for publication.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The process for consulting when making or revising a strategy is set out in section 29. Before making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy, in accordance with section 30, a regional assembly "shall make such arrangements as may be necessary" for the making or revision of the strategy. The Bill then goes into the consultation process and the list of bodies that need to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is quite an amount of work to bring all of that together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: All the processes outlined in the Bill are compliant with the Aarhus Convention. That is a key principle of the review of the Planning and Development Act 2000. Deputy Ó Broin is correct in terms of the four-week consultation period; it provides time to put it all together. In terms of publication, section 32(4) states that "A regional spatial and economic strategy, or a revision of...