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Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There were seven Ministers going in and out.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The process worked best when the Minister was present because some of the other Ministers were, unfortunately, from outside the Department and were sometimes not able to engage and answer on a lot of the issues. When I asked about Aarhus compliance on Committee Stage, the Minister said that some matters in the report did not relate to the Bill. I asked about the matters in the Aarhus...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy lets me, I can answer that.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I asked the Minister earlier on to answer the question.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I will answer it again.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are not going to have a conversation.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is great because we have been asking for an answer to that question for months, and not just on the generalities. Regarding the planning delays to which the Minister referred, let us be very clear about this. We are all opposed to planning delays in the system. Unfortunately, the biggest delays that have occurred in our planning system in recent years, with the backlogs in An Bord...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: This will be my only contribution tonight. I support the amendment relating to the Aarhus Convention and put forward by Deputy Ó Broin and others. The Aarhus Convention was ratified way back in 2012. Its purpose was to empower the citizen with three major pillars, namely, access to information, public participation and access to justice. In my experience as a councillor and a Member...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We are not.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. In terms of the residents' associations, they have to be formed. There is a certain period of time. This is my interpretation of it.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is fine.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not sit on a committee and I would like more time to look at this. I am guided by what I have been told and what I have read. This is an absolute insult. It is blatantly against the spirit and law of the Aarhus Convention that was signed back in 2012. If we were seriously interested in improving the planning laws in Ireland, we would have properly resourced them and made them robust....

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I will make three points in response to the Minister's comments. First, I restate that the difficulty for all of us in opposition with the process tonight is that we have not had sufficient opportunity to debate the amendments from the Seanad. There are 627 of them in 31 groupings and we are still on the first grouping. Three hours is not enough time to debate amendments we have not had an...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. The debate sounds a little like a Second Stage debate - broad, rambling and what have you. All very valid, maybe, in some respects but there are a number of amendments before us and I would have thought people would want to get into the substance of the particular amendments. If we are going to have long, rambling speeches, we are not going to get there with very many...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I will be relatively brief, but I need to respond to what the Minister has said. I congratulate him on answering a question we did not ask. We did not say the legislation was rushed. A number of us specifically said that putting 175 pages of amendments into three hours was rushed. That is what we said. I want to back up what has been...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: For reasons stated right through every hour of the debate and in every section of the Bill and every amendment we tabled. Fundamentally, we need a planning system and planning legislation that support the needs of our people. If you go outside this House and say to any normal person on the street the word "planning", the first word most will come back with is "delays". What do delays do?...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will deal directly with the Minister's response to my queries, specifically in respect of amendment No. 2, but it is important to correct the record of the Dáil on the Minister's timeline. He gave the impression some of us on this side of the House said the legislation had been rushed. In fact, in my remarks I made it very clear Committee Stage was done entirely appropriately...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to agree with the comments made by Deputy Gould in his contribution. There is no doubt the planning system benefits and is geared towards people who can afford to go to court and who can afford to challenge decisions and that is wrong. It impacts on what a planning system should be which is for the value and good of every citizen in our State. Unfortunately, our courts and system is...