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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. My final question is on section 72(22). Again, this may be an existing provision of the Act or it may be new. I am not sure. The subsection states: A resolution referred to in subsection (11) or (20) shall require to be passed by not less than half of the members of the planning authority and the requirements of this subsection are in addition to, and not in substitution for, any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. There is a requirement for 50% of the members of the planning authority, that is, 50% of the members of the council, to approve a plan that might only be relevant to a geographical portion of the council.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That might answer my question. It is almost like a check that the full council gets to decide in order that the members of one particular area cannot lose the run of themselves and go off a spending spree. In essence, that is why it is there.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With apologies to the Cathaoirleach, I have one further question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It relates to section 72(27). Again, this could just be a catch-all provision. The subsection states: The Minister may by regulations make further provision about— (a) the preparation of, the making of and the amendment of urban area plans and priority area plans, and (b) related matters. Is this just to catch stuff that might not otherwise be covered?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 555: In page 166, line 17, after “area,” to insert “or Gaeltacht Service Town within a Gaeltacht area”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 556: In page 166, line 17, after “Gaeltachta,” to insert “Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any relevant Language Planning Officer,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 557: In page 166, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(viii) where the settlement or part of the settlement to which the proposed plan relates includes a Gaeltacht Service Town outside the Gaeltacht or an Irish Language Network, Foras na Gaeilge, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any relevant Language Planning Officer,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 560: In page 174, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(VI) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network which applies to the settlement or the part of a settlement concerned,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 563: In page 175, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(h) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network which applies to the settlement or the part of a settlement concerned,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 566: In page 176, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(vi) any language plans agreed in accordance with the Gaeltacht Act 2012 relevant to a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network which applies to the settlement or the part of a settlement concerned,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 75(4) states: Where the Office of the Planning Regulator, as part of an assessment under subsection (1) or (2), forms a preliminary view that the urban area plan, priority area plan or coordinated area plan concerned or any part or provision thereof should be suspended because it may be materially inconsistent with one or more of the items referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (v) of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of observations. Part of the problem is that it is based on a preliminary view that something may be inconsistent, and not that it is inconsistent. The regulator could, on further reflection, take a different view and lift the suspension. It seems too easy a trigger for suspension. Should there not at least be some check or threshold that would have to be met? Second, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If subsection (4) were to state "on conclusion of the assessment as set out in subsection (3)", that would be one thing. However, the regulator does not have to wait until he or she has concluded an assessment and has considered all those-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My point is different. Section 75(4) contains the phrase "Where the Office of the Planning Regulator, as part of an assessment". That is not on the conclusion of or after the assessment. Where the planning regulator and its hardworking staff are going through their assessment of the plan as per subsection (3), subsection (4) can kick in at any stage. At an early stage of the assessment,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister of State mean section 75(1) or section 75(2)?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That still does not address the point. Subsection (4) includes a significant power. The Government is proposing to allow the regulator, at any stage while it is carrying out its assessment of a plan - the beginning, middle or end - to have the power to temporarily suspend a plan or any element of it. My one concern is that there seems to be no real check. It would be different if it were...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but subsection (4) can be used before any item under section 75(3)(a) to 75(3)(f) are concluded. Am I not correct in that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking the Minister of State to clarify that the assessment does not have to be concluded. Not all of the considerations under section 75(3)(a) to 75(3)(f) must be concluded. We are talking about a really early intervention mechanism. Is that not what it is?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That clarifies the point.

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