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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The key issue here is that under the current legislation local authorities are obliged to provide as part of the development plan process a list of public rights of way, whereas under this Bill they are no longer obliged to list public rights of way. I am not sure if it is section 58 where the change or the weakening of the provisions occurs or if it is elsewhere in the Bill. Could the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: An amendment to the 2000 Act, passed in July 2010, placed a legal obligation on a planning authority to include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way in development plans. This is to be done by "marking them on at least one of the maps forming part of the development plan and by indicating their location on a list appended to the development plan". This is in section...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My point is that it states “shall” regarding where a planning authority proposes to include a provision in a development plan relating to the preservation of a specific public right of way, whereas the existing legislation places a legal obligation on planning authorities to include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way. That is why it is a dilution of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is because section 49(2) states that “a development management statement may include objectives for any of the following”, whereas the existing legislation obliges the local authority to include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way. It is not what is in section 49(2)(g) that is at issue; it is the introductory wording that is of significance.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This relates to section 49, which is why-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: “Shall” is used in relation to where a planning authority proposes to do this. It is still optional. That is the point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does "during the course of this session" mean this afternoon?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will there be a breakdown per local authority?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The reason I ask is because the Irish Planning Institute raised with me, for example, that in one local authority, only three out of 11 posts in the planning department had been filled. That is relevant to this because if there are only three planners out of 11 posts and there are additional workloads like this, how are they meant to do it? That is the exactly the point of----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 502: In page 143, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(v) (I) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (II) where the functional...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 505: In page 144, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(h) (i) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (ii) where the functional...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 508: In page 144, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(e) (i) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (ii) where the functional...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 511: In page 145, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(v) (I) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (II) where the functional...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 527 relates to section 65, which deals with an urgent direction requiring a chief executive to vary development plans. I have two issues with this. The first is the level of discretion afforded to the Minister and the Government in deciding what sort of event or situation would justify giving the Minister the power to issue an urgent direction. The wording is not well...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have one question on this. I share the concerns about these sections of the Bill. The Bill places a huge amount of power in the hands of the Minister and creates, in terms of the Office of the Planning Regulator, a range of additional inputs. From national planning statements being issued to the role of the Office of the Planning Regulator, the role of elected members is being massively...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There is a question I want to ask but the Minister has backtracked a bit there because in his previous response he said that if it was on a regional basis he would look at roles of elected members but not if it was a national basis. Now he has said if it is on a single authority basis-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----that he would look at the roles but not on a regional basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a question on that but first have a comment. Section 65(1)(a) is very broad, as I said previously. It is open to a lot of interpretation as to when an event with significant, national, regional or strategic implications has occurred or is likely to occur. There are lots of different ways that can be interpreted. This comment is just before I ask my question, because the Minister is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sure. I get that. I am concerned, however, about the part of it that is very broad.