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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have listened to the Minister. I have kept quiet but I intervene when I think it is important. With regard to the considerations for the issuance of a national planning statement, in deciding to issue a national planning statement, it is stated that the Minister shall have regard to the setting out of policy guidance, planning matters and blah, blah, blah, “including, but not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it looks like.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell the Minister what is wrong with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I and any reasonable person reading this could easily construe that in issuing and formulating a national planning statement, the Minister will have regard to a series of things that are set out and that include “the assessment of any application for development consent”. Surely, “the assessment of any application for development consent under Part 4” should not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason for my sponsoring this amendment is that, whatever the intention of the Bill, a plain reading of it suggests the Minister will be prompted to formulate national planning statements. The relevant provision is section 24(1)(n). In making a decision, the Minister will produce a national planning statement. The issuing of policy guidance will be prompted by certain considerations....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it reads like.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it reads like. The Minister can explain it but I am telling him that is what it says.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I make a brief point?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe I am not fully understanding some of the points made, but, for me, this is a simple matter. The amendment relates to section 54(3)(n). Section 54 deals with considerations for the issuance of a national planning statement. It is not just about what the planner may or may not consider. This is about what prompts a Minister to issue a national planning statement. That is my problem...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The amendments we have tabled, and the amendment from Deputy O'Callaghan, are trying to do similar things. The Minister will probably say they could be done anyway and that the Bill as drafted will allow for all of this. Our point is it will also allow for the Minister not to do it. In the areas we are specifying, we do not believe it is an option not to do it. I will repeat an instance...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have learned a lot from making some big mistakes and failing some pretty important categories of people, and these are very much planning issues. We thought they were not but they actually are. The point and logic of these amendments is to say that we need to learn from our mistakes in doing planning and development. We cannot, as we did in the past, essentially allow general types of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying this specifically as a planning matter. I am not talking about the Minister's policy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We can discuss that another day. I am talking about how the planning system has failed to play its very important part in ensuring that we meet these incredibly important social goals and plan for them. They were not even considered planning matters. They cannot be optional extras any more. They have to be imperatives as part of the planning and development of our society and communities....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would bend the stick on this one and say I do not see the point in planning permission being given for developments which 80% to 90% of the population could not possibly afford at this point. I just do not see the point in that. Is that approach to planning and development not really what, in the end, led to the Celtic tiger crash? We were building three times what we are building now....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying that in developing national frameworks, planning statements or development plans - any of these processes for planning and development - there should be a specific requirement to look at social and affordable housing need. To date, and what is being proposed here, we only look at housing need. There is no requirement to break it down in terms of the types of housing and I think...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On amendment No. 204, one of the most horrific reminders of the need to get the issue of providing culturally appropriate and decent accommodation for Travellers and its link to planning is the tragedy in Carrickmines, which is in my area, where ten Travellers lost their lives in 2015. One reason that fire happened was the Carrickmines site was exempt from fire and planning regulations as it...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 30: In page 31, after line 39, to insert the following: “(3) The Agency will give due regard to employment conditions for researchers at any applicant body when considering their application, in accordance with section 9(1)(e). (4) The Agency will take measures to ensure that individuals carrying out research funded by the Agency are in receipt of any...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to thank the officials as well.

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To Deputy Sherlock's point, I respectfully disagree that this is not the place. I was not aware of IFUT's representations. I was aware of those of the Postgraduate Workers Association, but it is interesting IFUT is making that representation. It is in line with the earlier amendments, although that comment was more proper to the earlier group of amendments. When we look at the other...