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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: .... We need to go back to the first principles of planning on this. Why do we have a planning system? When we brought in a planning system, no one said let us bring in a system to try to break up and destroy Gaeltacht communities. That was never the intention of the planning system but that is exactly what is happening now with what the planning system is facilitating with the lack of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...arguing that language should be the only consideration. It is just one of many considerations. I am saying that developments that could undermine the language in a Gaeltacht area, and ultimately destroy it, may, on the balance of things and because of different considerations, get the green light. That is where I have a fundamental disagreement with the Minister of State. I absolutely...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...top of mountains in order to build wind turbines and then the mountains collapse as a result with incredible destruction following. Turbines may also be built in the wrong place where they might destroy marine life biodiversity. We know the sea and the oceans are some of the big sinks for dealing with climate emissions. If we do not have the references to protection, conservation and...