Results 1,701-1,720 of 6,933 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State. It is a good explanation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: This wording applies to all planning authorities so they must do what is set out in section 42(1) and (2), which reads "The strategy shall set out objectives relating to ... sustainable rural development". What if there is a planning authority that does not have rural areas in its functional area? This states they have to set out objectives relating to sustainable rural development. There...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: This states it must set out objectives relating to sustainable rural development, but it may have no rural areas in its functional area. I appreciate that most planning authorities have rural areas but not all do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It says they all have to do it, does it not?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Where is the "appropriate" bit?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The word "appropriate" is quite ambiguous.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I will.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I do not have them in front of me just now.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Matthews can have another couple of minutes on this amendment and then we will suspend.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Ó Broin is being generous in stating that there is a blurring of the lines between the roles. There seems to be incredible overreach. That the Bill is changing the OPR from a regulator into something else altogether while still requiring it to carry out its regulatory functions is highly problematic. The amendment seeks to mitigate this somewhat. How can an office be the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The elected members have a key role throughout the development plan process. In many ways, it is their development plan and they are elected to produce it. In the context of local democracy, it is one of the key functions of local councillors. Section 51, which brings in the OPR before the preparation of the draft development plan begins, is significant; however, not having the elected...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: If the amendment is not accepted it will mean that before elected members have any say or involvement in the development plan process, or in the section 51 pre-development plan process, the OPR will have a say. Council members are the people elected to represent local communities in local democracy. It is meant to be their development plan and they have this key responsibility. They will...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I would like clarification on this. We have discussed amendments on transboundary issues previously and received the same response. The commitment is to look at it with regard to development plans as well as other areas.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I thought that as well, without having discussed it with Deputy Ó Broin.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It does not make sense without the other amendments before it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: In effect, amendment No. 476 is about implementation of the development plan. It is also a kind of a monitoring exercise. My experience as a former local councillor and that of other local councillors is that there is a lot in development plans that are passed that does not come to fruition in terms of different policies and objectives. It will not always be feasible for all of it to be...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That is exactly the point. The thrust of this Bill is that it gives considerable powers to the Minister, who can issue national planning statements, give all sorts of direction to local authorities and planning authorities through that. There are considerable powers for the Office of the Planning Regulator as a kind of enforcer to ensure the wishes of the Minister are adhered to. However,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 303: In page 97, lines 32 and 33, to delete “insofar as is practicable”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 305: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) Ireland’s climate targets as set under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 306: In page 98, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(v) each local authority’s Traveller accommodation programme.”.