Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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There is one matter I should have mentioned. The draft statutory instrument that was circulated to the committee contains the 250 sq. m restriction, and acknowledging that we will not proceed with that, we can proceed on the basis of a revised statutory instrument, with the permission of the committee, rather than coming back and delaying this further by submitting another revised statutory instrument to the committee. We can do this with the committee's permission. It means the statutory instrument that goes before the Dáil and Seanad would have the 250 sq. m restriction excluded. It just saves the time of having to come back to the committee again. This would be with the assent of committee members.