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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: 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...

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is section 32, which modifies the procedure under section 24 of the Act.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is eight weeks for a judicial review.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is from publication.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is from publication.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, from publication of the notice.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Is given effect.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. Is that okay?