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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The amendment seeks to amend section 84 to provide that planning authorities and an coimisiún pleanála shall perform their functions under the Act in a manner consistent with the climate action plan, the climate action strategy, the national adaptation framework and sectoral adaptation plans, furtherance of national climate objectives, and the objective of mitigating greenhouse gas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We can give consideration to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: These amendments seek to provide that a planning authority may extend a permission where the permission is subject to judicial review and it is satisfied that the proposed development did not materially convene the development plan when permission was granted. I ask Deputy McAuliffe to withdraw the amendments as I am already bringing forward amendments to Part 4 to provide that a planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Absolutely. Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The Conservation Advice Scheme for Vacant Traditional Farmhouses was a pilot scheme operated by my Department in 2023. It supported the provision of expert advice to private owners of vacant farmhouses who were availing of or considering applying for the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant. Applications were received from 70 owners for the 2023 pilot scheme, with 34 approved for funding....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: While the law as it stands does not provide for a general definition of the role of archaeologist, the work of archaeologists is subject to statutory regulation in a number of ways. Archaeological excavation cannot be undertaken lawfully except where permitted by a relevant licence or consent issued under the National Monuments Act 1930, as amended. Since the early 1990s it has been the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: My Department is not currently considering the standard referred to and would need to review its content and legal standing before taking any steps in relation to it. Ireland’s policy on archaeological heritage is based on the provisions of the 1992 European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (the Valletta Convention) and this informs all relevant policies and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The existing National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014, and the Planning and Development Act 2000, currently enable compliance with the Valletta Convention with its aim of the protection of archaeological heritage as a source of the European collective memory and as an instrument for historical and scientific study. The more recently enacted Historic and Archaeological Heritage and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The EU Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy) establishes a common framework for the protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater. River basin management planning, structured in six-year cycles, along with its associated Programme of Measures, is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Agreements (29 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The National Landscape Strategy was devised in 2014 to give effect to the European Landscape Convention. Implementation of the National Landscape Strategy is implicit in many of the actions taken across the built and natural heritage sphere. The current work being undertaken across Government in the context of the land use review will supplant and overtake that strategy. In parallel, my...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: There are currently no plans to extend the season any further. As we know, bird-nesting season is upon us. It is important that everybody, both contractors and landowners, adheres to that. We have developed a programme around awareness, including across our social media channels. Separately, on roadside safety and overhanging branches, there is already an exemption under the Wildlife Act....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is, as in an advertisement structure. The Deputy is talking about where advertisement structures are being put back in, where-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No, it does not.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It does not. The definition in section 12 is "a public electronic communications network, within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2018/1972".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is in subsection 12(1)(a).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Where it is defined, that is the overground electronic communications infrastructure, so there is no definition there. It is taken as read.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In response to the Deputy's first question, I agree with him. It is something we have all come across, whereby roads have been removed for infrastructure and have not been returned or there has been maybe a settling of materials. It is a matter for the local engineer, the local authority, to rectify that. In any of the cases I have had in my constituency, that would be the case. The local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No. There are functions under the Roads Act, certainly, but it is not in this Bill. Generally, it is the case that it is work that is carried out by the local authority in its day-to-day roads programme, and sometimes that is the resurfacing, including repairs to works that have previously been done by contractors.