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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 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.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It is because these are ten year plans and are also in line with the commitments of the development plans.

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: It will be in 2027.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It will still be in the plan period as the census is to take place within the planned period. Therefore, as I said, it will be reviewed using the census data of 2027.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, the NPF plan period will be up to 2030.

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

Malcolm Noonan: If we have our census in 2027, we will have full data by 2029 on the results of the census review.

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

Malcolm Noonan: As I said, it can be reviewed at any time within-----

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 current process is a revision and a review is a much more fundamental in-depth process. Again, the fact is that one has a ten-year NPF, the census is non-aligned with that and will never be aligned.

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

Malcolm Noonan: It may not be needed after every census.