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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If I were to be consistent, I would have to allow the Minister of State the time to go back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel because that is what I have done on other occasions. In some cases, a Minister or Minister of State has come back quite favourably disposed. In other cases, though, they have not done so on Report Stage. In the Seanad, then, the Bill would be changed again....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can understand if the Minister of State needs to go to the principal aistritheoir in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is the man who is in charge of grammar for all of us who struggle with grammar, and it does not matter in what language. He can tell the Minister of State if my version of the different titles is correct, such as that of the "Príomh Choimisinéir Pleanála",...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to this issue on Report Stage if the Minister of State does not. It will be early enough on Report Stage. There is no extra cost involved in doing it. This is the luxury of it. A whole new planning system is being set up, so we can get it right from the get-go. We did not get it right with Irish Water. It is now Uisce Éireann. That organisation has had to change...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. 1003 will insert a definition on page 481. I have no problem with it but I find it odd that we would put a definition in this Chapter rather than at the start of the Bill where the other definitions are. The section in question also deals with special conservation areas, but the definition for that is at the start of the Bill with all the other definitions. Why does it appear...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is section 303. Sections 300 to 302, inclusive, however, all deal with architectural conservation areas, but the definition for "architectural conservation area" appears at the start, on page 27. I am not going to labour the point but it is odd that it is the only definition that will appear in Chapter 2.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 6: In page 27, line 37, to delete “Commission” and substitute “Coimisiún”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 7: In page 28, line 1, to delete “Commissioners” and substitute “Coimisinéirí”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will use up the ten minutes on amendment No. 9 alone. Agus níos mó, más gá. Aontaím leis an méid a dúirt an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh agus an Teachta Ó Broin. It is difficult when trying to deal with different concepts, in some ways, because of the Irish language part. I understand the understand the role of the Bills Office, so I am not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Chair is okay. That is what I was going to say on amendment No. 9 anyway.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good that the Minister acknowledges the huge costs being faced by small retail businesses, especially cafés and similar. Some of these costs have hit them quite suddenly and while they can plan for some, many small businesses are only surviving at this stage because the owner is not taking a full wage or has a second job. As Deputy Crowe just mentioned, in small villages owners...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refer to everybody who is struggling and has been crippled by the huge increases in costs for small businesses, including staff costs, energy costs and professional costs. The Minister mentioned the rates. There are also higher maintenance costs and higher entertainment costs for small, non-chain pubs. There needs to be a look at the rates. The Minister is correct that €5,000...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when is the rollout of the increased cost of business scheme going to happen and will he elaborate on the mechanics of the scheme; whether it has sufficient funding to address the crisis in small businesses and prevent a further raft of closures, especially among the hospitality businesses such as cafés and pubs; and if he will...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá triúr Teachta Dála i láthair: mé fhéin, an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Patrick O'Donovan, agus an Teachta Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin. Níl aon leithscéal faighte againn. Táimid chun déileáil leis na Meastacháin Athbhreithnithe le haghaidh seirbhísí poiblí 2024 ar chlár C - An Ghaeltacht - de...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Níl fadhb ar bith le sin. Níl ach mise anseo chun ceisteanna a chur, de réir cosúlachta, mura dtagann baill eile isteach. Rinneamar iarracht cinnte a dhéanamh de go raibh an deis ag an Aire Stáit teacht os comhair an choiste toisc gur gá dúinn déileáil leis seo chomh tapaigh agus is féidir. Bhí seisiún againn díreach...

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Sea, ach tháinig méadú thar chuimse, mar shampla, ar allúntas na Comhairle Ealaíona agus an chaiteachas ar an ealaíon sa tréimhse céanna. Mar sin, níor tháinig méadú ar an gcéatadán sa Roinn ina iomláine sa tréimhse sin.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ach má dhíreoimid isteach ar an gComhairle Ealaíon agus caiteachas ealaíona a chur i gcomparáid le caiteachas ar an nGaeilge, tá an coibhneas sin ag éirí níos mó bliain ina dhiaidh. Mar a dúirt mé, níl mé ag-----

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Meastacháin le haghaidh Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024
Vóta 33 - Turasóireacht, Cultúr, Ealaíon, Gaeltacht, Spórt agus Meán (Athbhreithnithe) (8 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá an tAire Stáit ag déileáil leis an méid a thugtar dó agus tá sé go maith go bhfuil méadú tagtha ach tá gá le hardú níos mó. Maidir le roinnt de na rudaí atá luaite ag an Aire Stáit agus ag an Roinn, caithfimid cinnte a dhéanamh de go bhfuil dóthain airgid ann dóibh. Glacaim leis go...