Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2:10 pm

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 81:

In page 22, line 17, to delete “subject to subsections (8) and (9)” and substitute “subject to subsections (8), (9) and (10)”.

This amendment relates to section 11(3) which provides that a new strategic housing division of the board shall deal with applications for permission for strategic housing developments. Under the current drafting, the operation of the strategic housing division is subject to subsection (8) which relates to the quorum for a meeting of the division being set at three board members, while subsection (9) provides for the transfer of a case of particular complexity or significance from an individual member to a meeting of all available members of the board. I am providing that subsection (3) is also subject to subsection (10) of the section which relates to the future dissolution of the division as work on strategic housing developments declines after the end of the timeframe for the fast-track procedures, that the strategic housing division will continue until dissolution and, most importantly, that any unresolved matter falling to be decided by the strategic housing division will, following its dissolution, be performed by the board or a relevant division of the board.

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