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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The amendment is to change the structure of how this is worded, which is: (a) securing national and regional development strategies, including maximising the potential of the regions; (b) supporting proper planning and sustainable development in urban and rural areas; We propose a wording whereby proper planning and sustainable development runs through (a) and (b): (a) Securing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I strongly support maximising the potential of the regions once it is closely aligned with proper planning and sustainable development. I am concerned with the current wording, in subparagraph (a), where "including maximising the potential of the regions" is there without being linked, in subparagraph (a), with "proper planning and sustainable development". We have sustainable development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: My concern is also the way it is drafted. Section 19(2) begins: “The National Planning Framework shall contain a statement setting out the Government’s broad national plan in relation to the strategic planning and sustainable development of the State .. securing national and regional development strategies, including maximising the potential of the regions”. That could...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to come in on amendment No. 662.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The way the amendment is worded is it is not an exhaustive or exclusive list, in that it provides that "such prescribed documents shall include at least information on the following" but there can of course be lots of more information sought and lots more prescribed documents. It is just to make sure these things are not missed and the amendment is worded that way. We had a very good...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 553 means that rather than co-ordinated area plans happening within one year of a development plan being passed, there will be a five-year window. That is a significant change in timeframes. I appreciate that there are resource and capacity issues involved but five years, potentially, for a co-ordinated area plan is a long period after a development plan is passed. It is half...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will not because it is too long.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to say-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was concerned about amendment No. 662, so I am glad that will be withdrawn. That wording in the Bill is important and I am glad it will remain. As for amendment No. 689, I will need to look at it but I have not raised anything in respect of it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, I have no issues with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 131 is about inserting climate targets into the Bill to make sure that meeting climate targets are part of the objectives of the national planning framework. We had some discussion earlier that is relevant to this. In my view, it is just not sufficient to have these targets in other legislation. They have to be a core part of what is being done in the national planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will first deal with amendment No. 131 on the national planning framework and I will then move on to amendment No. 366. The Minister of State said there is merit in what we are saying, it will be looked at for Report Stage and there will be a thorough review to make sure the legislation covers this. However, he is also indicating that he thinks the Bill covers this. It is unclear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The wording proposed is that rather than section 19(2)(c) referring to “supporting the circular economy (within the meaning of section 6 of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022)”-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Section 19(2)(f) refers to “outlining how the pursuit and achievement of the national climate objective is to be integrated into plan-led development”. I want to be specific about Ireland's climate targets as per the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021. Stronger wording would be more specific. On amendment No. 366, the Minister said this is complex, is at an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, it is worth noting that timber is not only not a modern method of construction. In fact, it is really oldest method of construction. Buildings were made of timber before even stone or concrete. Hundreds of years ago, the buildings and houses in Dublin city were constructed out of timber. We sometimes hear it referred to as some sort of modern or novel use but it is not. As the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A developer planning to build 100 homes makes the application through the planning process. At that point, through the development plan and through engaging with the planning process and the national planning framework, or whatever it is, the developer should know what the carbon limit is for the construction of those 100 homes. The way they are going to achieve compliance with that carbon...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 420 is about the obligation to prepare objectives for management of areas, use and structures. This is to include wording to support reaching Ireland's climate targets. It refers to page No. 109. It would insert, "Supporting reaching Ireland’s climate targets as set under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.”. In the climate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I had not spoken to amendment No. 596 so I will now, briefly. This is about matters to which planning authorities and the commission shall have regard. The amendment is to ensure that specifically includes carbon emissions. A point was made before that the language in this Bill should be up to date with the climate emergency we declared in 2019. On the wording, I made the point that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have been there plenty, do not worry.