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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies. I will endeavour to answer as many of the questions as were put forward on this grouping - amendments Nos. 1 to 18, inclusive - as I possibly can. At the outset, and for the record of the House, this charge that this legislation is in any way, shape or form rushed is completely and utterly incorrect.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: It is the amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I will give the timeline. In September 2021-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: This is about the amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It is the amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Deputies once. They will get their time and come back. In September 2021, there was a 15-month comprehensive review of the Planning and Development Act. This was asked for by the Government of the Office of the Attorney General. We are talking nearly three years on that. In December 2021, the planning advisory forum was established. It was made up of over 30 key...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I know others have already spoken in general about the process. Indeed I spoke about it this morning. It is really concerning to see that we have only three hours to debate 177 pages. I am just looking at the groupings we have been given. Even if we just look at the groupings, we can see 31 groupings of amendments and we are still only on the first grouping 45 minutes into what is only a...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Thomas Gould: It is often said that rushed legislation, or rushed amendments to legislation, leads to bad legislation. We have seen this time and again. Regarding the amendments included here, which have not gone through the fairly rigorous process we had at the Oireachtas Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, where are we going? We spent hours, days and weeks going through this...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: Well, you did.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I did not take exception and it is not politics. I am in the Chair, and the conversation and debate should be relevant to what is going on. That is what I am doing now as well. I remind the Deputy that we are discussing Seanad amendments Nos. 1 to 18, inclusive.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is right.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: This morning I reminded the Deputy that we-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: You did, but you had-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: No, no.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: You said it when you were sitting on the Opposition benches. You took exception to what I had said.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please. In my role as Chair, I asked you to be relevant to the topic, as I ask everybody. I asked you not to make it personal. I am asking you again to direct your comments towards the amendments. I am giving great latitude.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: Thank you. I am making it clear that when you left the Chair and went to the Opposition benches, you told me what you thought about what I had said, which is fine because you are elected here the same as me. You are perfectly entitled to do that - absolutely, no problem - and you were right to say what you said. I am also right to say it is not normal behaviour. The funny thing about it...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is there interference?