Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-12
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Eoin Ó Broin (SF), Dublin Mid-West

I move amendment No. 202:
In page 69, to delete lines 14 to 25 and substitute the following:
"(3) When the Minister proposes to issue, amend or revoke a National Planning Statement, the Minister shall consult with the relevant Joint Oireachtas Committee on the draft National Planning Statement and given due consideration to any recommendations it makes in respect of the draft.
(4) When the Minister proposes to issue, amend or revoke a National Planning Statement, the Minister shall lay before each House of the Oireachtas both—
(a) a draft of the new, amended or revoked National Planning Statement, and
(b) any screening decisions or assessments required under either the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive or the Habitats Directive, or under both Directives as may be required,
and such draft Statement shall not be made or a Statement revoked as the case may be, until a resolution approving the draft of the new or amended Statement or the revocation of a Statement is passed by each such House, following a debate of no less than 2 hours.
(5) The Minister shall publish on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage—
(a) a National Planning Statement,
(b) notice of an amendment of a National Planning Statement and a copy of the National Planning Statement as amended, and
(c) notice of the revocation of any National Planning Statement.
(6) The Minister shall cause to be made a communication strategy and give effect to that communication strategy in order to ensure effective and widespread notice of the new, amended or revoked National Planning Statement is achieved with the public, and to highlight its potential implications, and the processes which it will drive at national, regional and county level.
(7) A National Planning Statement, amendment or revocation published under subsection (3) shall take effect on the date of its publication, or on such date as may be specified therein where that is later than the publication date.".

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