Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The committee is meeting to consider the Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the committee. He is accompanied by Mr. Colin Ryan, senior adviser on national, regional and urban planning policy at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and Mr. Terry Sheridan, principal officer of the planning policy and legislation section. The committee has had the opportunity to look through the regulations. I invite the Minister to address the committee and we will then move to questions and answers. It is quite a short meeting, so I remind members to be direct with their questions, if possible, and the Minister to be direct with his answers. That would be helpful.