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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: I strongly disagree with the Minister. We made the point that we know one is not restricted from doing this but not having it in the legislation does not give it the priority needed. We put forward the case strongly that the planning system has failed a number of people, including disabled people, in their ability to access essential public infrastructure. That is happening now. Given the...

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. 205 - being very clear on this - while pages 403 and 404 deal with the housing strategy, and not taking away what is there regarding Part V on the affordable schemes the LDA is doing, as well as approved housing bodies, the not-for-profit sector and local authorities, this amendment is about affordability permeating the entire planning system as an absolute goal over and...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: We did not speak to amendment No. 207.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: We spoke to amendment No. 206.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thought it was amendment No. 206.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I certainly did not say anything on amendment No. 207. I know it is not my amendment.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The way subsection 24(2) is written means that even if the word were "shall", paragraph (a) would still say "such other Ministers of the Government as the Minister considers appropriate". Subsection (2) is already qualified by the phrase "such public bodies as the Minister considers appropriate" and "any stakeholders or other persons the Minister considers appropriate". Paragraphs (a), (b)...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the example of the bulk purchase of houses and duplexes and the regulations that were brought in, if there had been public consultation, which would indeed have been quick, what would have come through would have been a clear wish for apartments to be included. Every week in my constituency, I talk to people who are living in homes that are larger than their needs. They want to be able...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I accept the Minister of State's intent. It is welcome that the intention is to do public consultation. The legislation would be much better with the inclusion of "shall do the consultation". Regarding emergency, urgent areas, the consultation could be done quickly. There is nothing to be lost by public consultation. It only improves outcomes with the knowledge and experience that comes...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I think they have more or less the same intention.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy to withdraw amendment No. 214 on that basis.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Can the Minister clarify whether national planning statements are meant to address plan-making alone, or, as inferred from our reading of the text, do they stray beyond plan-making to the decision-making part of the planning process? The view of the Irish Planning Institute is that they stray into the decision-making process.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a great deal to say 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 appreciate that, and there is a mention of that further on in the Bill but that kind of misses the point. What I am saying is that in planning in general, in addition to social housing and particularly affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes, the key aim of the planning system should be to make sure that housing is affordable for people. If you go back to the first principles of...

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 on amendments Nos. 223 to 225, inclusive. The Minister of State spoke about a period of transition. How long will that take?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister of State envisage that all the section 28 guidelines will be updated? Will some of them be considerably changed? Will they be incorporated as they are in the national planning statements? Is it a range of all of that? Could some of the existing section 28 guidelines stay on the books for a number of years before there is any national planning statement replacing them?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 184: In page 65, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “(g) Roinn na Gaeltachta, Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Foras na Gaeilge.”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 190: In page 65, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(8) National Planning Statements and amendments, including revocations, should be subject to Joint Oireachtas Committee scrutiny.”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 193: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) (i) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta and in Bailte...