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- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I did not-----
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: May I come in?
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: It is unfair. If Senator Flynn thinks this has something to do with her, she should realise it absolutely does not.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I am just going to clarify because I believe it is very important. I came in here because I heard Senator McDowell say we do not need the Bill, the national planning framework and these strategies. I am saying that while I might disagree with many of the points in the Bill and the national planning framework, it does not mean I do not engage in the democratic process. That is what we are...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: It was not personal to me because I was not making any personal comments, so I respectfully say we should leave it.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: Since so many Senators are coming in on this point, it is probably a good idea to have everybody's views aired on whether we go for this fully-planned approach to our infrastructure in Ireland, or whether we just fly by the seat of our pants and take it decision by decision. I am favour of the former, but I have problems with the draft national planning framework. I went to the committee...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State and his Department for agreeing to consider over the summer all the inputs I have made today. I will withdraw the amendment. I may reintroduce it on Report Stage after the summer.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for considering the amendment. Over the past year and a half, there has been extensive engagement between us in the Green Party and the Department in relation to this Bill. I thank the Department for including many of our amendments, coming back to us on occasions like to say it has considered what we said and giving us something that might move towards being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the officials for their contributions so far. I am looking at page 9 where the current problems and issues are outlined, which this document aims to address. It states; "Cities like Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford [are] growing but not at the pace or scale required to function as realistic alternatives to Dublin." What I am looking at is a document that is not in any way...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I would like Mr. Hogan to go over it again but in response to my question, which is about the north west. The Department's document says that only 4% of the overall number is to go into Galway but it fails to answer why that is the case. If it is because there has not been investment to date, what does Mr. Hogan think is going to define whether there will be investment in the next 15 years...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: The Department is saying two core things here. It is saying that it is a problem that we are doing all of our development in Dublin and yet, in this document, it is still putting three out of every five people who are going into cities into Dublin. That is what it is doing. The second thing that has not been addressed is the issue of compact growth. Again, the Department is putting half...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: You kind of are because this is the strategy as to where they go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: Living in Galway, as I do, the people live on one side of the city and the businesses are all on the other. As a country, we have put them there because we designed it in that way. There is now a problem with it. It is incredibly difficult to reverse out of that but I still believe that, with investment, we can. These are the kinds of decisions that are made through these strategy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: I absolutely agree with Mr. Hogan on all of that. That is why I am saying how critical all of this is. When the Department shares a vision as to what it wants Galway to look like and the kind of increase of population it is planning for, it defines the kind of investment that is made, the kinds of decisions that are made by councillors and the kinds of decisions that are made as to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: Again, it comes back to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: All right. I thank Mr. Hogan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: None of the cities, including Dublin, is coping well with the population increases and demands. The draft NPF sets out that we will give greater weight to Dublin to cope than we will to other cities. That is what I am reading in this draft. I am reflecting to the witnesses my frustration as someone from the west at not seeing the same kind of infrastructural follow-on from this document as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: It is the first day of the consultation, as I understand, so we are all reading through the document and the various amendments and so on as we go. Is there any reference to the western rail corridor, light rail for regional cities or double-tracking of rail lines to regional cities in the document? I cannot find anything about those in the document. Will the witnesses clarify that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: There is no mention of those specific projects. I want to completely understand this. Mr. Hogan mentioned public transport and the metropolitan transport plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Pauline O'Reilly: What about Galway?