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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely. The points the Deputy made are valid ones.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: What the Deputy is looking for is a bit more around going back and finding a process to see if there are elements we can use.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is the spirit of partnership, Deputy Ó Broin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: As is the Deputy's democratic right.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will it be withdrawn and brought back on Report Stage?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 173 seeks to provide that the Government "shall have regard" to plans and documents that are considered appropriate and to assist in this, the Government shall consult a range of joint Oireachtas committees and shall include a statement in any draft provision on the new NPF about why information would be considered appropriate for the purposes of this review. On this one, I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Taking the point Deputy Ó Broin raised, the Government "shall" have regard to this, as far as the Government is concerned. With regard to consultation with Oireachtas committees, in the overall context, without being prescriptive to any individual committees, that is provided for under section 21(2).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I probably did not explain myself properly. Where the Government “shall have regard”, obviously, “shall” is used in the context of prescribed documents. Section 22(2) states that the Government “shall” have regard to plans as may be prescribed but section 22(1) deals not only with prescribed documents but other documents as well, so the Minister or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will go back to the core point. If it is agreeable to members, I will undertake to come back on Report Stage, so that section 21 will read: The Minister shall make provision for public consultation in the review of the National Planning Framework, including arrangements for consulting- (a) members of the Oireachtas and Oireachtas committees, I undertake to come back with that on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would presume, for instance, a transport plan or environmental plans. It is anything that is relevant and specific. It may have regard to another document. It could be any document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It could be any document.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would expect that would form part of the consideration. It may relate to some other document, however. I cannot give the Deputy an example because that is not what section 22(1) is about. The Minister may look at any document outside of it. They could be research documents. We are trying to be prescriptive.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I understand the point the Deputy is making. The Government will have to set up what the prescribed documents are in terms of looking at the regulations around the NPF. Outside of those documents, the Minister "may have regard" to such plans. Therefore, we have to put in something whereby the Minister at the time or Government at the time "may have regard" to same. The phrase "shall have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am sorry, I do not mean it in that sense, but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a positive statement rather than a negative one.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It would very much be around, obviously, maritime plans and environmental plans. It will be quite prescriptive. It cannot be hugely general in-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.