Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

Can he give us a bit more information about that? Is there a reason the environmental assessment is not conducted prior to the bringing of the regulations to us? Again, this is just for my own information. The final two questions are on the other farming regulations. There was one on fencing, and anaerobic digestion. They are not being dealt with today. We are going to get those at a separate stage. Can the Minister of State give us any indication of the sequencing of the other regulations? We were just setting out our committee schedule for the remainder of this year. We have a heavy schedule of meetings. There were probably two or three pieces of primary legislation. We are all keen to schedule this to facilitate him. Is there any update on the scheduling of that because it does require at least an hour or hour and a half of committee time to get through them. Even if he does not have a sense of the scheduling, does he know the number of committee meetings he might require? Is he breaking them up into many sub-modules, if that makes sense?

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