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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: I move amendment No. 339: In page 101, line 28, to delete “rural”.

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. 342: In page 101, line 30, after “environment” to insert “, including climate,”.

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. 343: In page 101, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) 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 regulation of development, including the setting of appropriate development management policies and...

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. 351: In page 102, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) (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, such matters identified in paragraphs (a) to (e) specifically for the purposes of protecting the...

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. 353: In page 102, line 14, after “area,” to insert the following: “based on demographic projections, including average household size,” This is an amendment to the section 44(1) obligation to prepare a housing development strategy. Section 44 states: (1) A planning authority... shall prepare a strategy for its functional area...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: We can take amendment No. 353 by itself.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is a very valid point. As far as I am aware, we do not plan population in Ireland. Some countries plan populations but Ireland is not one of them and, hopefully, never will be. There are a few issues. In terms of the Minister of State's response-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: His initial response. That was all I had to say to get more in from the Minister of State. The references to urban compact growth in section 42 and housing growth in section 44 do not cover the point we are trying to make at all. There is an issue with household size and demographic projections, which have to be a key point in housing development strategies. They should be key and the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that.

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”.