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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 move amendment No. 245: In page 70, line 24, after “policy” to insert the following: “but which recognises the importance of balancing such economic requirements with factors improving the health and well-being of the regional population”.

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. 247: In page 71, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(iv) (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...

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. 255: In page 74, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(iv) (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...

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. 258: In page 74, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(vi) (I) where the region includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, Roinn na Gaeltachta and Údarás na Gaeltachta, (II) where the region includes a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta outside the Gaeltacht or a...

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. 261: In page 77 between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "(iv) (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...

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. 263: In page 77, to delete lines 22 and 23 and substitute the following: “(iv) (I) where a regional spatial and economic strategy affects a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, the need to protect the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities, including the...

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. 274: In page 82, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(h) (i) where the region includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, Roinn na Gaeltachta and Údarás na Gaeltachta, (ii) where the region includes a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta outside the Gaeltacht or a...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The theme of an expanded role for the Office of the Planning Regulator runs through several sections of the Bill. That office is no longer just a regulator, but becomes an enforcer for the Minister. Under the Bill, there is centralisation of power in the Minister and the OPR is the enforcer. For example, the Minister makes or amends national planning statements and then the OPR has the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: These are significant enough changes in terms of the expanded role of the OPR. What, if any, analysis has been done of the risks of that expanded role? Safeguards are needed when centralising power with the Minister. What safeguards are being put in place with regard to the expanded role for the OPR under section 34 and elsewhere in the Bill?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The OPR was set up on foot of recommendations from planning tribunal reports. It was about the need for an independent regulator of the planning system. I do not think in those recommendations this type of role, where the OPR is effectively an enforcer of the Minister's powers in the national planning statements, was envisaged. It is a departure from those recommendations. It is, to use a...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding these provisions under section 35, they are quite significant in cases where the OPR and the Minister can effectively overrule the democratic resolution by the elected members. Is there other legislation where the Minister and the OPR can do that or is this a new provision altogether? On the second point, the Minister of State is saying this is all necessary to avoid legal...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: However, regional assemblies would never normally meet in August.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Even the way those calendars are done, they might have a meeting in early July and then the next one would be in September. Normally, they just would not be meeting over those six weeks.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is that not a requirement under the Aarhus Convention for public consultation beyond just screening and appropriate assessment if there are environmental issues?

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. 280: In page 87, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(iv) (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...

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. 283: In page 88, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(f) (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...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a case (details supplied) whereby a person has been refused the mortgage interest tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11473/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 332. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action he is taking to provide appropriate accommodation for people who are seeking asylum who are currently living in rented accommodation outside the International Protection Office; what access to sanitation, food, clothing, etc. is being provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (7 Mar 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 333. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the Protecting Against Predators report by the Sexual Exploitation Research Programme, what action he has taken to address the highly concerning findings in the report; if an investigation by the Health Information and Quality Authority has been carried out on foot of this report; if other...