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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try and capture them all. Amendment No. 175 would ensure that the national planning framework has regard to language plans. Amendment No. 192 would ensure that the reference to the distinct amenities, character and vitality of rural areas is expanded to cover rural and Gaeltacht areas. Amendment No. 193 is again from Conradh na Gaelige and refers to: ... protection of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Cathaoirleach can come back to me again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to them if needs be.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The definition of "language plans" is to be found in the Irish language legislation. There is, therefore, a specific definition, so when we talk about "language plans", we are using a legal term rather than just a concept. This is worth looking at again. These are things to have regard to in the language plans. Some of the language plans might not be advanced enough to have any major...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The group is amendments Nos. 137 to 167, inclusive. I will not withdraw these amendments because we have not seen the change. While I accept the proposal for a priority area, that is at a lower level than the national plan in some ways.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It should be at all levels. That is the problem.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No more so than this road and that road, or whatever else. The national planning framework does not have to be so specific as to which road or development will happen. This would be a guideline to influence planners, the local authority and the development plans at that level. If they take it into account that there is a need to address language planning, the statement would be set out...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 192 to 194, inclusive,208 and 209 relate to the national planning statements. I still believe that in this primary legislation - because that is what it is going to be - there needs to be clear statements at every level on what the role of planning is. It needs to be as much as it would for all of the other issues listed in that planning statement. I am still of the view...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Part of the reason for this proposal is the frustration of those who have tried to use Irish with the system. This came up in the Irish language committee when we were discussing planning in Gaeltacht areas. One of the questions we raised with the chief executive officers of the different councils that came before us was how many people in their planning sections had Irish. If I am in the...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The amendments relate to what the planning authority or commission, as the case may be, shall have regard to when performing its functions. The two amendments are very simple. Amendment No. 599 seeks to insert, after "protected structure", the words "or its integrity within the surrounding context". This is important when considering protected structures because they do not sit by...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 599 and 600 relate to obligations on the planning authorities and the commission to have regard to certain matters. The matter we are trying to introduce here is to ensure that the context in which a protected structure exists, and not just the structure itself, is also taken into account when the planning authorities and commission are making any findings or reviewing...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The context is important and that is why we are trying to include it, in what is a very short, six-word amendment that reads "its integrity within the surrounding context". These are two reasonable amendments that I hope the Minister will accept.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To come back to the other points, the Minister was talking about amendment No. 55, the previous amendment. Perhaps I did not make the point as well as I should have. The specific provision in the legislation proposed has to do with matters to which the planning authority and commission shall have regard. It is not about pre-empting the decision of the planning authority or the commission....

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would the Minister consider inserting "the sole reason" into the wording when he is changing it? At the moment it is just "reasons". I know he is changing the wording.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is gnáthchruinniú i seomra coiste 4 i dTithe an Oireachtais é seo, cé go bhfuil gné fhíorúil ar Microsoft Teams ag baint leis. Tá ceithre chomhalta i láthair sa seomra coiste nó ar líne, Teachta Dála agus Seanadóir san áireamh. Tá an Teachta Marc Ó Cathasaigh agus na Seanadóirí Lorraine Clifford-Lee...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim míle maith ag Niamh Ní Churnáin. Sula gcasfaidh mé ar TG4 agus Alan Esslemont, is féidir an dá thrá a fhreastal mar tá an Teachta Ó Muineacháin anseo agus tá sé ar an scáileán ag an am céanna. Tá sé sin go hiontach agus beidh mé súil leis an seic uaidh amach anseo. Iarraim anois ar Alan...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas as an gcur i láthair sin. An bhfuil aon cheisteanna dár n-aíonna?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá brón orm a bheith ag cur isteach anseo ach ó thaobh an chórais leis na fotheidil a dhéanamh as Béarla, an úsáidtear AI chun é sin a dhéanamh nó an mbíonn duine á gclóscríobh? Maidir le han-chuid stuif anois, tá sé uathoibríoch toisc go bhfuil an oiread sin daoine ag caint Béarla agus...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Úsáid agus Infheictheacht na Gaeilge ar na Meáin Chraolta: Plé (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Sula ligim don Teachta Ó Cuív teacht isteach, ba mhaith liom a aithint go raibh an Seanadóir Barry Ward sa chruinniú agus go bhfuil an Teachta Joe McHugh linn ar líne chomh maith.