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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: On the Deputy's latter point, we are working with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to cover that range. On the issue of public access, we might be able to look it on Report Stage but it should be covered where appropriate. It cannot be that there is open access to everything but we will look at that on Report Stage. On amendments Nos. 408 and 409, we believe the definition of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 to 23, inclusive, together. Under Housing for All, there is a policy objective to increase and improve housing options for older people to facilitate ageing in place with dignity and independence. Housing for All builds on and takes forward the ongoing actions in 'Housing Options for Our Ageing Population' policy statement from 2019, published jointly by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The 2015 Act is referred to and the 2000 Act was amended for the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Here, planning authorities are required to prepare a strategy but it also includes the requirement, under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, to produce and prepare climate action plans. Section 47(3) states, "A planning authority shall seek to ensure the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It if is of help, I will give an indication of the groupings.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is covered under the definition of a "monument" in the historic heritage Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is explicitly covered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Battle sites are explicitly referenced.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Battle sites are covered in the definition along with any site with legendary or mythological associations. They are covered explicitly, therefore, in the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will address Amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive, 407 and 414 together. Amendment No. 401, jointly tabled by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Smith, Kenny and O’Callaghan, seeks to include a new objective in such strategies for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of native species subject to the strict protection of species under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is section 48(2)(i).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 48(2)(i) refers to "places, caves, sites, features and other objects of archaeological, geological, historical, scientific or ecological interest". We believe that captures and covers it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The section we are quoting that relates to amendment No. 407 makes specific reference to historical sites. The Deputy wanted a bit more information on amendments Nos. 401 and 402. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It reads "places ... of archaeological, geological, historical, scientific or ecological interest”, such as caves, sites and features. That covers this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Exactly, yes. So, it is covered-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Places, caves and features are one element, and this is in addition to any other objects that are of “archaeological, geological, historical, scientific or ecological interest”. It is all-encompassing. It covers every aspect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Features.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: They could be covered under “sites” and “places”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The view we take, and we can obviously agree to differ, is that it is too restrictive. There may be circumstances where the word “hedgerows” may need to be removed. This may be for wider policy issues or sustainable development. It is just too restrictive. That is the view we take.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 48(2) reads “The strategy shall include objectives for the conservation, protection, management and improvement of”, and section 48(2)(b) goes on to state "biodiversity in accordance with the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the National Biodiversity Plan including in particular the protection of trees, groups of trees or other features of ecological significance". We...