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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could indeed. It is simply about subjecting these to democracy, and not just in the Dáil with the national planning framework. This is a theme that runs through many of our amendments all the way through this Bill and right down. At the level of development plans, we do have that. Everybody can put in submissions, the public is told, everybody gives their opinions, we hear from...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking to amendments Nos. 176 and 178 and the amendments to them that I, along with others, tabled. They suggest the national planning framework must be approved democratically by these Houses. Simply consulting various people, including committees or relevant stakeholders, is not enough. It is saying, "We will let you give your opinions but we will not actually subject the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 146: In page 65, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(g) providing for social, affordable and cost rental housing objectives as set out in the housing strategy.”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 156: In page 66, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(vi) sports and community facilities;”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 166: In page 66, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(g) when considering building residential property, promote development of at least 20 per cent social housing and at least 30 per cent of social, affordable and cost rental housing.”.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To summarise my point, the imperative to deliver social and affordable housing has to work all the way through the planning system. The Government has failed to deliver social and affordable housing. It is as simple as that. We have a dire crisis. It is not getting any better. In fact, rents and house prices are becoming more unaffordable by the day. Even when the Government trumpets...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not respond first?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister had his seven minutes?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a few amendments in this grouping, including amendments Nos. 146, 156 and 166. In developing the national planning framework, I am seeking to include a more forceful imperative to include in that the need to provide for social, affordable and cost-rental housing objectives as set out in the housing strategy.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is amendment No. 146. This amendment relates to the need to include specific objectives for providing social, affordable and cost-rental housing as set out in the housing strategy. Amendment No. 156 proposes that it should also include a requirement to make specific provision for sports and community facilities. Amendment No. 166 proposes to insert a new subsection to the effect that...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said I have not been following it closely. I am not on the defence committee-----

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but I spoke on Second Stage and I raised some of these concerns, and I am sure others did as well. For the record, we all spoke at length about some of the horrible stuff that went on, the impacts on the victims and the sexual, physical and other abuse. It is not fair to suggest that is not as big a concern. I do not know why this is a source of amusement. I honestly do not. It is...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So let us keep it independent, not potentially - let us put it that way - compromised.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were mentioned on Second Stage.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in great detail. No, I have not.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to speak in support of these amendments. I do not see how it is at all credible that the Secretary General of the Department of Defence can sit on a body that is supposed to be an independent, external oversight body over the Defence Forces. As Deputy Berry has just pointed out, there is a glaring contradiction when you talk about having the right to remove people where there...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It says in the Bill that it does.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I will read it out, since the Minister decided to interrupt me.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister maybe does not know what is in his own Bill.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does it deal with?