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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: That is fair.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Will the Deputy repeat that?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: There are two aspects. Why trees specifically? It is because they are subject to tree protection orders. We have agreed to look at the whole area around biodiversity and come back on Report Stage. We believe hedgerows are covered under "other features of ecological significance", but trees specifically are covered under tree protection orders. We have agreed to look at the biodiversity,...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Very few.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: No. It comes up quite a lot. It comes up at times. Can I put it another way?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I am seeing it at the moment on the ground. I had an issue in the past week where a bus stop was being put into a rural village. We agreed with the council that it required the removal of trees from the site and hedge. The council is replanting the trees at another location and it is going to replant the hedgerow to maintain that on site. Effectively, therefore, on an ecological basis...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: We have committed to looking at biodiversity in the round. I understand the point the Deputy is making. We will commit to looking at that as well as part of it.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: But today I am not accepting the amendment.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: The voice of reason from the corner.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Having discussed it at length-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: -----I have committed to going back and looking at it as part of a biodiversity review.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Do members wish to speak on these amendments or will I read the note?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It is amendments Nos. 405, 406, 415 and 416.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: These amendments introduce two key changes to terminology used in the Bill with respect to UNESCO world heritage properties. As currently drafted, section 48(3) defines a UNESCO site as a site which has been inscribed on the world heritage list by the world heritage committee. As there are a range of different UNESCO cultural conventions, covering areas such as world heritage, underwater...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 405: In page 108, to delete lines 12 and 13 and substitute the following: “(e) World Heritage Properties, having due regard to the reasons for the inscription of the property on the World Heritage List under Article 11 of the World Heritage Convention,”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 406: In page 108, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(f) World Heritage candidate sites,”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 415: In page 108, to delete lines 35 to 40, and in page 109, to delete line 1.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 416: In page 109, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: “ “World Heritage Convention” means the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage done in Paris on 23 November 1972; “World Heritage candidate site” means a property included in the most recent inventory submitted on behalf of the...