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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 119: In page 57, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Licences under section 254 of Act of 2000 13. (1) A licence granted under section 254 of the Act of 2000 that was in force immediately before the repeal of that section by section 6 shall remain in force and have effect on and after that repeal as if the Act of 2000 had not been repealed. (2)...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Section 261 relates to unauthorised quarries. Section 261A has regard to the environmental impact assessment directive and the habitats directive.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The normal provisions are required in relation to... Will the Deputy hold on one second?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It falls under enforcement and retrospective consent.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 120: In page 58, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “ “built up area” means a collection of statistical small areas, identified by the Central Statistics Office as a built up area following a census of population of the State;”. I also intend to move amendments Nos. 124 and 160 and to withdraw amendments Nos. 123, 156, 159...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will withdraw amendments Nos. 123, 156, 159 and 251. Amendments Nos. 120 and 124 are minor amendments to the definitions in section 15 to reflect new terminology used by the CSO to define towns for the purpose of a census. The CSO has introduced the use of the term "built up areas", BUAs, in the context of primary urban geography in future censuses. This term replaces that of "census...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will be withdrawing amendments Nos. 123, 156, 159-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 123, 156, 159 and 251 are going to be withdrawn.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: This is the up-to-date definition. Using the CSO's definition provides that consistency. In the context of what the definition states, BUAs are a new urban geographical construct for statistical purposed introduced in census 2022. They are created by combining small areas in order to identify the footprint of urban centres throughout Ireland. They are generated using an objective...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It defines settlements and towns to allow for their addition to what is proposed. It is a pretty prescriptive definition and is distinct in terms of urban settlements.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I see what the Deputy is saying.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: That is it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The Cathaoirleach is right. The Department has worked with the CSO to align the definition with the NPF. I cannot speak to the Road Traffic Bill or Local Government Act. I assume there is a coherence across the various items of legislation in relation to this matter. Deputy O'Callaghan is right that we are trying to ensure consistency and an ability to measure percentage of development...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: That is just one of the accepted definitions. Section 15 states: “settlement” means a village, town or city identified by the Central Statistics Office in its ‘Alphabetical List of Towns’, or such equivalent document issued by the Central Statistics Office, containing a minimum of 50 occupied dwellings with a maximum distance between any dwelling and the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is a minimum of 50 occupied dwellings-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The NPF targets are a percentage of the development in BUAs. Does that go further towards explaining it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is 50% in cities and 30% elsewhere.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.