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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy can decide when we come to voting on it. Amendment No. 303, in the names of Deputies Duffy, O'Callaghan and Ó Broin, is the next amendment in the grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We all have seen cases over the years of very poor planning and poor planning outcomes when there has been competition between local authorities. I will not name those local authorities, although perhaps I should do so. There are local authorities that have given planning permission right on the border of the jurisdiction of their neighbouring local authority in ways that undermine the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: As I said, all plans have to be materially compliant with the regional strategies and the national planning framework, and there is the OPR as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, and I accept that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...as they are going through their development plan process. It is important to have that flexibility there. Plus, it is the oversight. You go to a higher level at the regional planning level, and then the national planning framework to ensure that there is co-ordination. The flexibility is really there to ensure that, yes, there is co-ordination, but also "insofar as is practicable"...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. Deputies O'Callaghan and Duffy wanted to come in. We will do in that order please.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...may require two or more planning authorities to coordinate the development plans ...", the difficulty with that is that the Minister may not exercise that. If the Minister does not exercise that, and given how busy the Minister's Department is going to be, that may not happen. The default then is section 40(7)(a). With regard to section 40(7)(a) and that wording there, how does that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...road from Charlestown is IKEA, which is in Ballymun but in Fingal County Council's area. When IKEA opened, the rates were worth so much to Fingal County Council that the rates for all ratepayers and businesses in Fingal were cut by 10%, the biggest rate decrease that council has ever done, and probably the biggest rate decrease in the history of any local authority in the country, I would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...can be impractical. That is what it can do. That is what the law will say. If this local authority wants to be impractical, it can be because that wording has been left there to say that, and therefore it will be detrimental to another local authority. If the wording is not there at all, it means one local authority has to co-ordinate with another one when it is doing its development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...9(4) of the Act of 2000 states: In making a development plan in accordance with this Chapter, a planning authority shall have regard to the development plans of adjoining planning authorities and shall co-ordinate the objectives in the development plan with the objectives in the plans of those authorities except where the planning authority considers it to be inappropriate or not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: My amendment No. 334 is on the obligation to prepare a strategy for sustainable development and regeneration. Section 42 states a planning authority shall prepare a strategy for the sustainable development and regeneration of the functional area of the planning authority and that "the strategy shall set out objectives relating to the prioritisation of and measures to facilitate compact urban...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 334, tabled by Deputy Duffy, seeks to require the prioritisation of and measures to facilitate "regeneration" in addition to compact urban development. The strategy must also, among other things, include objectives concerning the regulation of development, including the setting of appropriate development management policies and standards, for the purposes of promoting the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 338 is to insert "and district heating networks". This relates to the strategies. In section 42(2)(c), infrastructure such as water, wastewater and waste-recovery infrastructure is listed. We include a list of necessary utility types. The Minister of State may argue that "energy generation infrastructure" covers this. Could he clarify whether "energy generation...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: In short, the answer is "Yes". The renewable energy reference covers it. I do not need to be prescriptive about it here but renewable energy covers district heating, anaerobic digestion and many other types of-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Would "energy generation infrastructure and facilities" include district heating networks?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 339 seeks to delete the word "rural" on page 101 with respect to the obligation to prepare a strategy for sustainable development and regeneration. Why is there a reference to "sustainable rural development"? While I am for sustainable rural development, we need to have sustainable development in other areas as well. I am conscious that section 42(2)(a) refers to compact...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: First, it is not limited to rural areas. Sustainable rural development is a defined term. It is important in light of the reference to "sustainable development and regeneration" in the section heading. Section 42(1) states, "A planning authority shall prepare a strategy for the sustainable development and regeneration of the functional area of the planning authority." There is a reference...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 340 is from Deputy Duffy as well and very similar. Both may be taken together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I have one other point. If you take it out or put "urban" in after "rural", you cover rural and urban but it is being left out.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: In that context, where is sustainable urban development? It is not there; that is the point. The Bill states it is only rural sustainable development and not urban. We are not even putting in "regeneration" regarding compact urban development. Regeneration means you do not just flatten everything; you try to work with what is there.