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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was asking how many Traveller-specific homes-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that the Part 8 exemption?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not accept the responses of the Minister of State to the previous amendments and I will certainly press some of them. I do not think the legislation is strong enough and it is not okay just to say it is down to the progressiveness or otherwise of the local Traveller accommodation consultative committees. The very reason we have the expert report is that the process is failing. Even...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Rents have almost doubled in the past decade, house prices are so high that we have collapsing rates of home ownership and unprecedented numbers of people in their 20s and 30s are still living with their parents or in box rooms. We can all agree that we have an affordability crisis. This amendment’s measure works in other countries and helps make housing more affordable. How on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is the point that I am trying to make. What the councillors will do in their housing strategies is they will say they need enough land for, let us say, 10,000 affordable homes in their area over the next ten years, some of which will be affordable rental or cost-rental and affordable purchase, but then what happens? It is fine to have a housing strategy and say this is their assessment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It does not address it at all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 205: In page 66, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(p) provision of a sufficient amount of affordable housing available to buy and rent.”

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support these amendments. Similarly in my constituency, there are areas where thousands of new homes have been built without cultural spaces. That comes at a huge cost for those communities because if there are no cultural spaces or proper amenities it has an impact on people's well-being, mental health and physical health. Then costs are picked up by our health service and ultimately,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have plans that allow for a diverse range of uses, the policies at national level and development plans and as quoted, section 46(2)(a), which states that the strategy shall include objectives for cultural spaces. This is all fine but we are not actually getting the cultural spaces, particularly in areas with a lot of new development. While it is allowed for under the planning system and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 211: In page 66, line 10, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 224: In page 68, line 4, to delete “continue in force on and after such repeal until” and substitute “either be”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 225: In page 68, to delete lines 7 and 8.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak to my amendments. Amendments Nos. 235, 237, 247 and 255 are about the regional spatial and economic strategies. Amendment No. 258 refers to consultation about new or revised regional spatial and economic strategies. Amendments Nos. 261 and 263 are about the preparation and revision of such strategies. Amendment No. 274 is about the publication and assessment of such...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 230: In page 68, line 29, after “Government” to insert the following: “, and (c) 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) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 233: In page 68, line 35, after “measures” to insert the following: “, and (d) Ireland’s climate targets as per 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) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 235: In page 68, after line 35, to insert the following: “(d) (i) where the region includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (ii) where the region includes a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta outside the Gaeltacht or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 237: In page 69, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(e) (i) where the region includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, a strategy relating to the promotion and use of Irish as a language of the community consistent with any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak to amendment No. 239. My read of the section is that it is a prescriptive and closed list. Section 27(1) states, "A regional spatial and economic strategy shall make provision for the following matters". It does not state "including the following matters". It is a prescriptive list. It appears to be a closed list that does not allow for other areas. I am particularly...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome that the Minister of State will come back to us on that. He indicated that he would look at the biodiversity parts of the Bill. Will he specifically look at the regional spatial and economic strategies and the wording used around restoration?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak to amendment No. 245. On page 70, it would insert, after "policy", "but which recognises the importance of balancing such economic requirements with factors improving the health and well-being of the regional population." This is important in ensuring RSESs will not just look at economic development but also at how development impacts the health and well-being of the population...