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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have one question on this. I share the concerns about these sections of the Bill. The Bill places a huge amount of power in the hands of the Minister and creates, in terms of the Office of the Planning Regulator, a range of additional inputs. From national planning statements being issued to the role of the Office of the Planning Regulator, the role of elected members is being massively...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There is a question I want to ask but the Minister has backtracked a bit there because in his previous response he said that if it was on a regional basis he would look at roles of elected members but not if it was a national basis. Now he has said if it is on a single authority basis-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: -----that he would look at the roles but not on a regional basis.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a question on that but first have a comment. Section 65(1)(a) is very broad, as I said previously. It is open to a lot of interpretation as to when an event with significant, national, regional or strategic implications has occurred or is likely to occur. There are lots of different ways that can be interpreted. This comment is just before I ask my question, because the Minister is...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Sure. I get that. I am concerned, however, about the part of it that is very broad.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is that part, however, which is broad even when reading them together. This is what I am concerned with. I will go on to my question. Is this the first time there has been a legislative provision like this where there is potential to vary the development plan without any role for the elected members? Have there been legislative provisions relating to that previously?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am aware it is a new provision, sorry-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: My question was whether this is the first time ever we have had a legislative provision where a development plan can be varied without any role for elected members?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is this a new departure? Up until now the making of development plans - the making of them, preparing them and varying of them - always involved elected members. Is this the first time ever we will now have provisions where a development plan can be varied without a role for elected members?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: This is the question.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The issue is that we do have a climate emergency and biodiversity, housing and homelessness crises. We do not now, but at other times we have had economic and unemployment crises. All of those are important but any of them could fit in with section 65(1)(a) or 65(1)(b). The Government may feel the need to take action as a matter of urgency on any of those issues. The section covers an...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 515: In page 148, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(viii) (I) where the functional area to which the development plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, Roinn na Gaeltachta and Údarás na Gaeltachta, (II) where the functional area to which...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am happy to talk to amendments Nos. 980, 987, 992, 994, 995 and 997 together because they are related. Amendment No. 980 proposes the insertion of the following into section 275: “other relevant person for the purposes of notice of endangerment for the property” shall include the following: (a) legal representative, professional, or management firms or individuals managing...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 476: In page 127, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(2) The chief executive of a planning authority shall, no later than 20 months after the making of a development plan, consult with the elected members and prescribed bodies on what is working well with the implementation of the Development Plan and on any issues or actions which need to be...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 532: In page 155, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(v) (I) where the settlement or part of the settlement to which the proposed plan relates includes a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, (II) where...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State to clarify a point about urban area plans and priority area plans. Is it the case that priority area plans are basically area plans that do not occur in urban areas. What is the difference?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to see where this sits. Strategic development zones are therefore just gone.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. I thank the Minister of State.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I wish to clarify a point. The Minister of State said priority area plans refer to areas of regeneration or brownfield sites, which means that greenfield sites will not be addressed by priority area plans. Is that correct?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking about this because the Minister of State put quite a bit of emphasis on brownfield sites and regeneration. I wondered whether that meant greenfield sites were excluded.

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