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- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 7 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 8 to Seanad amendment No. 2: To delete subsections (3) and (4) and substitute the following: “(3) No part of this Part of this Act shall be commenced until a resolution by both Houses of the Oireachtas is passed in respect of any section, Chapter or Part that the Minister proposes to commence, following a debate in both Houses of at least four hours. (4) A...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 8 to Seanad amendment No. 2 put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies who have contributed. I will not go over the old points but will address some of the issues. I completely reject Deputy Connolly's remarks. In no way, shape or form are we taking anyone out of the planning process. Third-party observations are totally and utterly respected, and rightly so. Normal people, residents' associations and environmental groups do...
- 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: 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...