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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 2: In page 27, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following: ""architectural conservation area” means— (a) a place, area, group of structures or townscape to which an objective referred to in section 299 applies, or (b) an architectural conservation area (within the meaning of the Act of 2000) to which an objective in a development plan...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I still have a note which is quite lengthy and covers the transitional provisions. With the Deputies' indulgence, perhaps it would help if I finished it and then we could come back.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It might appear cumbersome but it is quite important.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendments Nos. 2, 61, 188, 981, 983, 986 and 1002 all relate primarily to the protection of architectural heritage. A lot of this is just detail as distinct from the substantive Part 23. They seek to include those areas under the Act of 2000 to which an objective and development plan applies as long as that development plan remains in force by way of section 66 of the Bill. Similarly...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The answer to the Deputy’s question is that they will continue as transitional provisions until the specific sections are commenced in the new Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a qualification on that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Anything that is in train at the moment will continue to be assessed under the 2000 Act. The only thing that will be slightly different is that a local area plan, for instance, will now align with the development plan. In the case of a local area plan that continues up to 2027, if the development plan is reviewed prior to that date, the local area plan will cease and it will become a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. Then one is looking at other types of plans which we want to encourage. The zonings will come from the development plan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would be reluctant to give the Deputy a number but I know there are very few. The Deputy is asking in respect of-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I can think of two but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Donegal is one anyway. I am not certain, but I think Sligo is another. We will come back to the Deputy with definitive information.