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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 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.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I would imagine it is exactly as 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: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I will return to my note on this. Tying the timeframe for reviewing the NPF to the occurrence of the census rather than to the publication of the results of that census may result in an inadequate period for the review and the reflection of the census data in the NPF. The amendment proposes to tie the NPF review timeframe to one year from the publication of the results from the second...

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: The Deputy might give me a moment.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is a strategic plan and-----

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

Malcolm Noonan: -----and there is a ten-year gap between cycles.

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

Malcolm Noonan: The Deputy is referring to the two-year period from the publication of the 2022 census to the completion of a review. Is that correct?

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

Malcolm Noonan: In a good scenario, however, if the census is conducted more quickly-----

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: On delivery, I can see the point the Deputy is making as things happen quickly and it is important to be in front of all such change. That is critically important. The main population elements of the census take about a year but it is important, as the Deputy has said, to have all the of the census data in order to do the NPF properly. Even though it is a standard plan for ten years, a...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes and it can be reviewed at any time. As the Deputy has said, there are so many outside factors which can influence such a plan.