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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: 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.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes. It certainly can be examined after each census but in what has been set out, with the procedure for the review and the public engagement, there are so many additional elements to that which are also significant. I certainly see the point the Deputy is making but there are provisions in there to ensure that it is a fluid process and is able to keep up with changing trends and...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: As a ten-year strategic plan, it gives consideration to demographic trends and future projections, as well as having an element of flexibility around reviews. As I said in response to Deputy Ó Broin, because of the sequencing of the census periods as relating to the NPF periods, they are never going to align. It is important, therefore, that an opportunity be there to review it in that...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: As I said, under the procedures for review, quite an expansive and participatory process is required at least every ten years, but it will be possible to review it more frequently taking into account census population changes. As Deputy Ó Broin pointed out, we have had a substantial population increase coupled with substantial inward migration over recent years. Those changes are...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Again, that is to ensure we will have all the census data. We will get the preliminary census data but, to paint a full picture and properly inform the national planning framework, we will need all the census data.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Again, it was just a drafting decision.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
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