Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Kevin Kelly:
In fairness, they are probably preliminary conversations in terms of the need for some adjustment. Doing an extension on a house is not the same as doing a major development with a strategic environmental assessment, SEA. There needs to be some measure of difference in the timelines. There is no reason for a significant difference in the timelines to exist between the commission and local authorities. It is the same work. There is no reason for us to get eight weeks and somebody else to get 12 weeks.
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