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

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister of State clarify the significance of the differences between the housing strategy at section 219(7) and the housing development strategy? The housing strategy is done before the development plan. Is the housing development strategy based on the housing strategy? What is the difference? Why do we have both of them? The housing strategy is much more detailed in terms of...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Then our amendment to section 44(1)(a) is absolutely in the right place because if we do not have an amendment there, then the housing development strategy in the development plan, which is about the development plan side of things, will miss this key wording. It is fine that it would be in the housing strategy, which is a separate document elsewhere, but it would be missing here. That...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will not labour the point but I take the opposite view to the Minister of State. I think it is sufficiently important and should be in section 44(1)(a) as per the amendment. I will leave it at that.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Some very good points have been made. I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for bringing forward these important amendments. There is a monotenure estate, which I will not name, in Coolock in my constituency. The residents there will tell you there are high achievers there. The estate is 40 or 50 years old, and many of the kids who grew up there, who are now 30 years old, went on to fulfil high...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to press my amendment.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 354: In page 102, line 17, after “development” to insert “while mitigating climite impact”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 385: In page 106, to delete lines 23 to 25 and substitute the following: “(b) (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, the protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 368: In page 103, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(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, population and housing objectives for those areas for the purposes of protecting the linguistic and cultural...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 390: In page 106, after line 39, to insert the following: “Obligation to prepare Gaeltacht housing and population development strategy where planning authority’s functional area includes one or more than one Limistéar Pleanála Teanga or Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta in the Gaeltacht 47. (1) A planning authority whose functional area includes...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine a case (details supplied); when her Department will issue a decision to the school in question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 29 February 2024, the reason there have been such lengthy delays in issuing guidance to pre-schools and in opening the ICT portal for the upload of core funding applications; if he is aware that these delays may cause closures among pre-schools; if he is further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 315. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress update on the HSE recruitment freeze; when this recruitment freeze is likely to be lifted; if he will provide data, in tabular form, on waiting lists across adult mental health services compared to before the freeze was implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13512/24]

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. I am happy with all that. I have a lot to say on amendment No. 407, so it would work better to take amendment No. 407 separately from amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive.