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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was welcoming that the Minister was agreeing that our wording was very good.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: They have huge significance for wildlife and habitats. We see the devastation caused in other countries when they removed some of their landscape features, including hedgerows. That has had hugely devastating environmental consequences, as well as economic consequences for people working on the land. The significance of hedgerows in our landscape cannot be overstated. It is highly...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to comment briefly on amendments Nos. 150 and 154.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Duffy's amendment No. 149 certainly is a good amendment as well. The addition of the two words "and restoration" in our amendment No. 150 is highly significant. Yes, conservation is important but it is of critical importance as well that we restore what we have lost. Including those two words would significantly strengthen the section. In general and not just in this Bill, our...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I welcome that the Minister will look at water resources and potentially list that on Report Stage. That would be useful. On amendment No. 154, again, the Minister has indicated that he is going to be looking at this. He said these issues can be achieved through guidance and made reference to the guidance that has been issued. To complement the guidance that has been issued, however, it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sorry; the Minister of State was a bit too fast. He is withdrawing No. 123 and which other amendments?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In planning terms, that could mean that a settlement with 60 dwellings where only 49 are occupied would have a different status from a settlement with-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: One of the reasons hedgerows are specifically named is that they have huge significance in terms of biodiversity and protecting land and agriculture.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister has spoken in support of nature restoration.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely, so it logically follows that the Bill should reflect that and state "conservation and restoration of the environment and its amenities".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is on prescribed bodies. In the 2000 Act, the matter is not left to the discretion of the Minister. The Act clearly specifies prescribed bodies as part of the procedure for reviewing the NPF. With regard to consultation, the Bill, in section 21, specifies Members of the Oireachtas, regional assemblies, local authorities, the commission, the Office of the Planning Regulator, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister answered my point about compliance with the strategic environmental assessment, SEA, directive by saying that section 21(3) states that the national planning framework shall be subject to the directive and the regulations but Article 6 (3) of the SEA directive which deals with consultation specifically says that "Member States shall designate the authorities to be consulted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank all the witnesses for the very strong contributions they made. I ask Dr. Cleary to expand on the call for a public inquiry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We had paused because we were going to get a note on section 11 and we did not proceed with moving it or voting on it. We received the note on section 11, so can I comment on the note on section 11 because that is the reason we paused?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am not looking to go back to the amendment as such, I am just looking to discuss section 11. We are on section 11 and if we do not discuss section 11 while we are on it, there will not be an opportunity to do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 101: In page 51, to delete lines 28 to 30 and substitute the following: “(2) A relevant declaration shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings brought by a person, other than an enforcement authority, relating to the act, operation or change in use in respect of which the relevant declaration was made.”. Before we vote on the amendment, I...