Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Philip Jones:
There are two things here. There is the land value tax, LVT, and land value sharing. I understood from talking to somebody that that was a mistake about sections 48 and 49 and that will be sorted. In the Bill, there is a provision for Chapter 4, which is direct applications to the board. Those could be strategic infrastructure developments, including very large wind farms. There is a specific section in that where the phrasing is very similar to section 48. It states that the board may impose conditions requiring contributions towards development in the area of the planning authority. If you look at the current legislative provision, which is that exactly, that particular provision uses slightly different wording where sections 48 and 49 would ordinarily apply if the planning authority had done it. It is not a mistake. The Department went to the trouble of changing that in Chapter 4. I can give you-----
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