Results 1,321-1,340 of 26,162 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry. That was in the rest of my written answer.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The process will see the officials-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: ------make a recommendation to the Minister. The Deputy asked for the background. The background I have given covers it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could the Deputy go through his amendment and give me the context of what it is asking?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: With paragraph (a).
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: No. What is meant by the phrase “either individually or in combination with other plans or projects”?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will the Deputy allow us to examine this? We all want to get to the same point. The officials are saying that what the Deputy is looking for is covered under the normal requirements of the AA and SEA. Let us consider the matter and revert on Report Stage. It is too technical for me to respond to now and I want to do it justice.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I know. Cumulative impacts are already covered by AA. Will the Deputy allow us to consider the matter and revert to him?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy and I will have to beg to differ on this point. As I said, we see section 24(2) as a very positive measure. It is rare that there would not, in practice, be public consultation. It will now be prescribed for specifically by way of legislation under section 24(2). There may be rare situations. Public consultation would probably take a minimum period of four weeks. The key...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I think I have also covered amendment No. 215.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Fine.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I take it that we are in agreement on the proposed subsection (10). In substance, the amendment and section 24(10)(a) are the same. Under the proposed subsection (11), what the Deputy is looking for is provided for under the SEA directive. The wording “significant effects on the environment” used in the amendment is covered by that directive and the European site element is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I also have amendments Nos. 225 to 227 grouped with those.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will deal with amendments Nos. 222 to 227, inclusive, which relate to a transitional provision - section 25 - which provides for the continuation in force of pre-commencement ministerial guidelines. The purpose of section 25 is to ensure that guidelines issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 will continue in force following the repeal of that Act. The Minister of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: It will probably take a couple of years for that to happen. The intention would be to have a structured approach to replace the section 28 guidelines with national planning statements. We may have in place national planning statements, which will replace specific section 28 guidelines, while at the same time existing section 28 guidelines continue to have the same legal status as they...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The intention would be to do it in line with the commencement of the Act for strategic infrastructure. The intention would be to roll it out over a two-year period. The existing section 28 guidelines will be replaced by national planning statements. Clearly, many elements of the current section 28 guidelines will continue and some of them may change.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy is being a little bit semantic there.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: The guideline within the-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are introducing national planning statements because we want to ensure there is consistency. We have discussed this before. There are inconsistencies between different local authorities and their interpretation. The SPPRs came about because of the inconsistency. The SPPRs were to try to reduce those inconsistencies. Amendment No. 222 states: "other than guidelines issues under section...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. They are embedded as a stabiliser.