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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 353, 359, 363 to 365, inclusive, 367, 370, 372, 379, 381 and 484 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will deal with amendment No. 353. I have not read everybody else's amendments-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes. We will take amendment No. 353 by itself and then maybe we will go to amendment No. 364. I might take my grouping together then because I will have to vacate the Chair for that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suppose it is based on CSO data and estimated population targets.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Following Deputy Boyd Barrett and the Minister of State, I will move on because we have had a discussion on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I will move on in this grouping. The next two amendments are in my name, amendments Nos. 359 and 363. Without discussing them, I am wondering if the Minister of State could read the note on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am precluded from speaking on my own amendments or moving them from the Chair. However, I will ask the Minister for State for clarification on where the requirement of education services, by which I mean schools, both primary and secondary, third level and further education, is included and in which strategy, which might be more suitable if I were to withdraw and reintroduce the amendments...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Not necessarily sports and recreation, because I accept the point that some of that can be private and may not be public, and one always zones land for community and educational use. I am wondering where within any of these strategies is a requirement on the provision of educational services. We seem to cater for many services and community facilities, but I do not see education. It may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. I understand there is good interaction between-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay, I was just looking for clarification, but Deputy Ó Broin now wants to come in on the matter the Minister of State raised.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are not dealing with that amendment. We are dealing with amendments Nos. 359 and 363. Based on what the Minister has read, we can move on from those two amendments. It may be helpful to the Minister of State to know that amendment No. 364 and my amendments Nos. 365 and 367 are similar so I will be withdrawing-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Government amendment No. 364 is next. It is about regeneration and activation, dereliction and vacancy and so forth.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I just think that amendments Nos. 365 and 367 are similar to the Government amendment No. 364.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will be withdrawing amendments Nos. 365 and 367 on that basis. The matter is covered by Government amendment No. 364.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin wishes to contribute on one of those four amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy could welcome amendments Nos. 365 and 367 as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Minister of State has covered them. It appears we were thinking along the same lines.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suggest that we discuss amendments Nos. 370 and 381 together. Deputy Boyd Barrett, this relates to the deletion of a subsection of two sections.