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Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss and the young people's assembly on biodiversity loss. I commend Dr. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin and the members of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action on their work on this important report. I commend, in particular, Deputy Leddin who chaired the joint committee because, having been in the Chair of a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent engagement with the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the West Bank and Gaza. []

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that and apologise for coming in late. I will speak to amendment No. 959, which is in this grouping and the purpose of which is to introduce an offence relating to the abuse of the planning objection process for financial gain. Minister of State, I think this is my first time addressing you as Minister of State-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Mine is in the next grouping

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Excellent. I will reserve my words but it is my first time addressing the Minister of State in his new capacity so I congratulate him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I raised this issue in my contribution on Second Stage. There is immense concern about the issue of costs generally and about the proposals on judicial review. I echo the comments of Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan about the need for greater clarity, in particular on timing. The more I speak to those engaged in planning - the stakeholders and so on - the more concern I hear about...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Chair and colleagues for facilitating me as I have to speak in the Dáil Chamber. I have been listening and many residents' associations will also be listening with interest to the discussion of the legal embodiment they may seek to favour. My amendment No. 959 is very much a stand-alone one. It seeks to insert a new section 252 into the legislation. I spoke in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister of State for that response, which is very positive. I certainly will not be pushing this amendment at this Stage given he has said there will be amendments coming forward on Report Stage. We will reserve our position until we see what those are.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Precisely. I thank the Chair.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1059: In page 570, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "Entitlement to Compensation 389. A person from whom land is acquired pursuant to a compulsory purchase order to which this Part applies is entitled to be paid compensation in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Part.". We have this large group of amendments. However, they all relate...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response and for providing some clarity on the publication of the proposed land value sharing and urban development zones Bill. We are conscious it has been long awaited. It is on this basis that we proceeded with these amendments. As I said, we had already produced a Bill that passed on Second Stage in the Dáil in June 2021 on this very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I am sure that the Chair would be delighted to add another Bill to the portfolio of the committee.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: That is very welcome. It certainly speaks to our amendments Nos. 1075 and 1076. I will withdraw those in light of what the Minister has said and reserve the right to bring them back on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Regarding the other amendments, the earlier group, these are about the CPO process more generally. Again, I understand that the Minister said he is reviewing these issues generally-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: -----in light of the Law Reform Commission's report. He will be assessing the findings of the Law Reform Commission during the process of this Bill. Am I correct in saying that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his clarification. To be clear, there will be a separate Bill related to CPO processes following this legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: This speaks to a broader issue with the Bill, and I said this earlier in front of a Minister of State here. Every stakeholder that we speak to now is very concerned about the number of amendments being made to this Bill as it is in process by the Government. There is a sense out there that the legislation was produced prematurely before the ducks were in a row. It does not make sense to...