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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the end of our discussion yesterday, we were talking about section 82(3)(a) and (b), which obviously is a restriction on who can challenge the eligibility of a planning application to the local authority. As members know, the section restricts that to the planning authority itself, the commission, the owner of the land or to a person who has a legal or beneficial interest in the land. My...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are very clear, because I was confused yesterday, this section does not in any way restrict anything to do with the courts.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is solely about who can challenge the eligibility of a planning application to the planning authority.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 596: In page 194, line 5, after “environment” to insert “, including carbon emissions,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 598: In page 194, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(III) the impact or likely impact of the development or proposed development on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht area or Irish Language Network, and the viability of Irish as the spoken language of the community,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 599: In page 194, line 8, after “structure” where it firstly occurs to insert “or its integrity within the surrounding context”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 600: In page 194, line 10, after “structure” to insert “or its integrity within the surrounding context”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 603: In page 195, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(c) in the case of development or proposed development which relates to land, in whole or in part, situated in a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, have regard to— (i) the protection of the linguistic and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We had a long discussion about this amendment. Since then, significant new information that is materially relevant to the amendment and the section has come into the public domain. I do not know about others, but I would like an opportunity to discuss that information before we take a vote on the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before the Chair proceeds, I presume I will be able to discuss the section after the amendment is decided. The information-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will be afforded an opportunity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is perfect.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The section has been amended by means of amendment No. 605. It includes a provision that many of us felt was very controversial when we discussed it. The section states: Neither a planning authority nor the Commission shall refuse permission for proposed development for reasons that the housing growth target included in the housing development strategy in respect of the settlement (within...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The truth always comes out in these matters. To put the Minister of State and the Minister on notice, I have already submitted detailed parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests to ensure that the full facts of this amendment come into the public domain. I appreciate this is not a matter that the Minister of State has been directly involved in but he is answering questions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a quick comment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just a quick question. The response by the Minister of State is very clear that there was no lobbying between the developer and the officials. I fully accept the veracity of that. Can the Minister of State confirm whether there was no request by the Minister or advisers to the Minister to the officials to work on an amendment, which eventually took the form of amendment No. 605?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it the case that this exclusively came from the officials, without any request from or conversations with the Minister or advisers in relation to that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have the planning decision here. I take a different view to the Cathaoirleach on this, for the record. The issue of the housing targets is the primary, if not sole, reason for the decision. That is my reading of the planning decision.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We can have a discussion about that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not in the decision. That is not the grounds for the refusal. Let us be very clear. I am happy to share that with the Cathaoirleach. I appreciate Deputy McAuliffe’s point and I am happy to share the Attorney General’s-----

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