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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is in section 19-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but this is section 21 because it is the review.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the national planning framework, certain things have to be looked at. Section 19 states the national planning framework will make provision for the following matters, which include "identification of nationally strategic development requirements ... employment, future population change, and associated housing". That is in section 19, and obviously I should have brought it up there but...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Listen, I have said very little and you all have gone on for three weeks so I think I am entitled to make a point.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to bring an amendment but I want to get the Minister's response as well.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but I think it is a planning matter. That is my point. It is a planning matter to assess not only the absolute amount of housing that is required but also the amount of social and affordable housing that is likely to be required at a national level or at a development plan level.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it should run through the entire process.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the point. Obviously we will come to section 219 and we will look at that in great detail. I want to be absolutely clear on this. Will there be a specific requirement in developing a national planning framework and in development plans to specifically identify the needs in terms of affordable housing as opposed to housing need in absolute terms? That is what I am looking for - that...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking for an answer.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it a requirement of these things - the frameworks and the development plans? That is the question.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am talking about.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: You jumped forward to section 219.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty sure I disagree with the Minister.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have listened to the Minister. I have kept quiet but I intervene when I think it is important. With regard to the considerations for the issuance of a national planning statement, in deciding to issue a national planning statement, it is stated that the Minister shall have regard to the setting out of policy guidance, planning matters and blah, blah, blah, “including, but not...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it looks like.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell the Minister what is wrong with it.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I and any reasonable person reading this could easily construe that in issuing and formulating a national planning statement, the Minister will have regard to a series of things that are set out and that include “the assessment of any application for development consent”. Surely, “the assessment of any application for development consent under Part 4” should not...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason for my sponsoring this amendment is that, whatever the intention of the Bill, a plain reading of it suggests the Minister will be prompted to formulate national planning statements. The relevant provision is section 24(1)(n). In making a decision, the Minister will produce a national planning statement. The issuing of policy guidance will be prompted by certain considerations....

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it reads like.