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

Cian O'Callaghan: Let us say there is a policy development relating to development applications and bin storage and it is not covered by national planning statements or national policy. A few years after the development plan is passed, guidance or national planning statements are issued in respect of bin storage, associated design guidelines and what needs to be done. Let us say the national policy and...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the question.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to speak to amendment No. 205 separately from the others. It relates to affordability in housing, which we touched on earlier. On amendment No. 202-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 202 relates to the promotion of human health and well-being. We had a good discussion with the Minister previously on the importance of this consideration in the context of planning. When the Planning and Development Act 2000 was passed, well-being was not talked about much. It is now discussed and considered, but consideration of human health and well-being, as well as all...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am finished speaking on amendment No. 202

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to hear the response of the Minister on amendment No. 202.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: If no one else wants to come in on it.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak first on amendments Nos. 203 and 206, and then I will move to amendment No. 205. On amendment No. 203, the points have been made well by others with regard to disabled people and the planning system. I will give one example. In my constituency, new housing has been built in the past few years in Baldoyle. There is a train station right next to it in Clongriffin but the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is the fact that thousands of homes can be put into in an area with a good park facility and good amenities, and then through that planning the local authority is able to just lock these. It sounds ridiculous that you should have to have a condition that the public toilets will be open or something like that.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: They are locked up the entire year, yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: For 365 days, yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: No one is able to access them.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am giving this as an example because it affects-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There is no point in planning facilities that people cannot access.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is a complete failure of planning to have thousands of new homes with a park and public toilets that people cannot access. That is a complete planning failure.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am using this as an example with regard to women in the local community. Their ability to enjoy the amenities that are planned for are not what they should be. It often comes up in the context of feeling safe in public spaces, the lack of public lighting or poor public lighting and maybe no public lighting in some of the amenities. All of these things are part of the planning of new...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy McAuliffe raised valid points and I understand them. I wish to respond directly to them. First, does providing cultural spaces, better public lighting and all that sort of stuff come at a cost? Potentially, it comes at a cost. However, if affordability was running through our entire planning system, it would be much more cost-effective to provide housing at affordable rates and...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is related to this and the issues that Deputy McAuliffe raised. It means affordable housing delivery, or all housing at more affordable rates, and delivery of cultural and youth spaces is much more viable. Regarding active land management, the problem with our planning system compared with other countries is our land management is far too passive because we are not pursuing...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: That is why we need a range of actions.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On amendment No. 203, I know the Minister commented a good bit while he was speaking but he might respond on why he is not accepting amendment No. 203. I made points around the need, when designing and planning areas, to take into account-----