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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: We have six minutes left.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak to a few of my amendments relating to the national planning framework and its objectives. In many ways, what we as a country set as our objectives in the national planning framework could not be more important as it speaks to the type of country in which we will live in future years. This is at the crux of the planning system. I want one of the objectives in our national...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: With regard to the bus service, I recently had the opportunity to visit the offices of the rural link bus. It is 100% correct that connectivity or having the bus service makes a difference to people's lives. It is absolutely brilliant. Any investment like that is, of course, extremely welcome. However, to clarify, the point I was making was about the Minister, who, in his infinite wisdom,...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: This is very important legislation. Although we are having this back-and-forth, this is once-in-a-generation legislation to reform our planning system. Deputy McGrath said earlier that it was rushed. That is absolute nonsense. We have gone through the legislation with the Chairman of the Oireachtas joint committee, and we had 223 hours-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: We were not here.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Not at all. Would you stop? We would have a lot more time if-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What? Only one day.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: Most of the Deputies here, whether in opposition or in government, have taken the process seriously and have gone to the trouble of tabling amendments. They are speaking to the amendments that are pertinent to the legislation.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Minister saying we are not?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair, on the amendment, please.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I want to address Deputy Matthews specifically because he raised an important point on climate action. Amendment No. 549 deletes the reference to the climate Act in section 86. That was agreed with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications as part of the amendments on climate. We are working through this and there has been really good engagement. Amendment No. 549, in...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 113: In page 62, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: " "community garden" means an area of land made available to members of the community for collective gardening purposes for personal or local consumption of produce and is operated otherwise than with a view to making profit, to be prescribed in regulations as "community garden" meaning an area of land...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 114: In page 62, line 33, to delete "means," and substitute "means".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 115: In page 63, line 10, to delete "(as read with subsection (9) of that section)".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 116: In page 63, line 11, to delete "local community development committee" and substitute "Local Community Development Committee".
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)
Amendment agreed to.