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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Priorities (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what additional steps he will take to ensure that Dublin City Council acts on foot of the Respiratory Health Among Residents of Oliver Bond House report, which showed the scale of the health problems associated with these flats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct or encourage all local authorities to carry out a full audit of their homes to ensure that they are fit for human habitation and that their conditions are not contributing to or causing ill health to tenants, as has been shown to be the case in Oliver Bond flats recently, as outlined in the Respiratory...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is quite a lot in this section. It is a pity the Minister was not here yesterday when we were dealing with some-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, it is just an pointe atá á dhéanamh agam ná go bhfuil an tAire tar éis rudaí a rá anois agus dá mba rud é go raibh sé anseo inné bheadh sé in ann iad a rá agus bheadh sé tar éis cuidiú leis an díospóireacht maidir le-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----cad gur chóir a bheith sna pleananna forbartha. Tá sé tar éis a lua ansin – rud atá go maith – go bhfuil sé ag féachaint ar chinnte a dhéanamh de go mbeidh ceantair na n-oileáin, nó na hoileáin-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----cé nach oileáin iad a thuilleadh toisc go bhfuil siad ceangailte le droichid – mar réimse ar leith i bplean forbartha. Tá loighic leis. Tacaím leis seo ach is é sin an sórt ruda a bhí muid ag caint faoi inné, sé sin, gur chóir go mbeadh na ceantair Ghaeltachta ainmnithe nó aitheanta mar cheantair ar leith sna pleananna...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There were families in a cluster of houses in Mr. Ó Beaglaoich's area. Some 120 people lived in the area and there are something like 30 living there now. They cannot get planning permission to demolish the old fothracha, the old ruins of buildings where families lived in the past, and replace them with houses. That is bizarre in this day and age in places where people are willing to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support, at the very least, some type of recognition in the definition that there is a specific need for Gaeltacht settlement patterns to be recognised. By "recognised", I do not mean that they should be given any additional funding or recognition over and above anything else, unless the document is subsequently amended. It is saying that when we are addressing this issue in other...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try not to rehash everything that the previous two Deputies mentioned. The Minister, when he addressed this, failed to grasp the fact that this is not an extra burden. This is to ensure consistency across the board. Most of it is to ensure that existing functions, whether State or local authority, are given the proper attention when developing, whether it is a development plan,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: All we are asking, in that amendment, is to consider language plans. We are not asking to adjudicate on them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a logic to this group of amendments. As the Minister stated, they basically relate to key bodies that are responsible for promoting the rights of Irish speakers and the language planning process in particular. They do not just relate to Údarás na Gaeltachta, which has a limited role in the Gaeltacht area, but also to Foras na Gaeilge, which is a State body and a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister responsible is also mentioned in the amendments. Is he or she just taken as a given?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a brief query on amendment No. 555. Is there a reason it cannot be accepted? Is it that it is superfluous? It is slightly different from the others. It proposes to insert "Gaeltacht Service Town within a Gaeltacht area" after Gaeltacht in section 73(5)(a)(vii). At the moment the section reads that a notice shall be sent "where the settlement or the part of a settlement to which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it a ribbon development?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The reason for amendments such as those we are discussing is because of the failure of councils over the years to take into account the linguistic and cultural heritage of Gaeltacht areas. I refer to amendment No. 894. The phrase "have regard to" does not make something compulsory. I put it to the Minister that we are not trying to have regard to anything. There may be a reason why a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister can create another category so he is-----