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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 Ceann 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.

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...

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

Ivana Bacik: Yes.

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

Thomas Pringle: It is a failure on the Minister’s part and on that of his Department that this is being rushed through on this Stage without any proper debate. For something that will have such a large impact on people and society across the board, it is wrong that this is happening. LNG is hugely polluting. We all know that. It does not even address the potential challenges given this will...

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

Catherine Connolly: A precedent has been set here.

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

Thomas Pringle: I just wanted to head off the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I think she was gathering her breath there to get on to me, so I just wanted to head her off at the pass to get to speak on it any way. Hopefully, we will get to amendments Nos. 78 to 90, inclusive. I doubt it very much. If we do, then we can have a further debate on the merits of the LNG amendment itself.

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 on 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.