Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have only a few more to outline. Amendment No. 912 reorders the definitions outlined in Part 7 (Housing Supply) into alphabetical order. That is all it does. It does not change any of the definitions at all.

Amendment No. 964 seeks to replace the word "issued" with "brought" for clarity. Similarly, amendments Nos. 272 and 273 improve the syntax of sections 270 and 271 without changing their substantive meaning.

Amendment Nos. 975 and 976 delete "mechanism" and substitute with the agreed full title of "environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism" in respect of the new access to justice initiative in Part 9.

The remaining amendments merely reorder the existing syntax for increased clarity, such as amendment No. 977 on page 458, lines 30 and 31, which deletes the phrase "was in a position to, but did not make submissions of a material nature," in favour of "was in a position to make, but did not make, submissions of a material nature".

Amendment No. 978 inserts parenthesis around the words "having regards to all circumstances" in section 271, which concerns further provisions relevant to environmental legal costs financial assistance mechanism.

Amendment No. 1030 deletes the word "for" as it is superfluous in section 336(3).

Amendment No. 1184 deletes the parenthetical phrase "(a wind farm)" as it is unnecessary after the preceding phrase "installation for the harnessing of wind power for energy production".

Sin an méid.

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