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)

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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I wish to return to sections 334 and 335 with regard to access to information and the length of time for which it is available. I will ask some other questions, but we might come back to it. With regard to what are known as section 5 declarations at present, now called section 8, at the local authority level, do the members of the organisations before us find that section 5 declarations take up a lot of time or overwhelm the system in any way?