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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: -----but I think it is a planning matter. That is my point. It is a planning matter to assess not only the absolute amount of housing that is required but also the amount of social and affordable housing that is likely to be required at a national level or at a development plan level.

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 it should run through the entire process.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the point. Obviously we will come to section 219 and we will look at that in great detail. I want to be absolutely clear on this. Will there be a specific requirement in developing a national planning framework and in development plans to specifically identify the needs in terms of affordable housing as opposed to housing need in absolute terms? That is what I am looking for - that...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking for an answer.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it a requirement of these things - the frameworks and the development plans? That is the question.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am talking about.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: You jumped forward to section 219.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty sure I disagree with the Minister.

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...