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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 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Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 123, 156, 159 and 251 are going to be withdrawn.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.
- 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?