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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 624: In page 199, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(u) conditions requiring space within the development for culture, including artistic creation, performance, learning or enjoyment, accessible to the public, including persons with a disability.”
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have four specific questions. I will go through them and we can deal with them one by one. Section 84(6) provides that: A condition attached to a permission in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (5) shall not require such an amount of financial resources to be committed for the purposes of compliance with the condition as would substantially deprive the person in whose favour...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The next question then is on section 84(9)(a), which states: A planning authority or the Commission may, in addition to any condition that it may or is required to attach to a permission in accordance with any other provision of this section, attach to that permission a condition that the person who carries out the development agree points of detail relating to compliance with the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The questions are on sections 84(6), 84(9), 84(10) and 84(13).
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, is it new?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The second question then is whether it applies to both schemes and one-off developments, for example, residential schemes and one-off houses?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How is it calculated?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Section 84(6) provides that it "shall not require such an amount of financial resources to be committed for the purposes of compliance ... as would substantially deprive the person in whose favour the permission operates ... " How is that determined? I have a very specific question I am going to ask once I hear the answer to that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This issue was raised during private briefings with the officials on the earlier stages of the Bill. Section 86, particularly section 86(1), details the types and categories of developments for which a pre-application consultation can be secured. I had hoped that consideration would have been given in the Bill to a wider opportunity for more pre-planning, subject to available staffing and...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I think I misunderstood the provision. Rather than a restriction setting out people who cannot apply for preplanning, this is talking about people who absolutely must have a prior preplanning application. It the other way around from what I had understood.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the clarification.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sections 88, 89 and subsequent sections deal with large-scale residential developments and I do not want to stop to discuss each section. I have a generic question. The legislation on such developments is relatively new. Does the Bill contain a literal transposition of this legislation or is there anything of significance that the Minister of State wants to bring to our attention? Is it a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 642: In page 211, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(5) Where an application made under this section is in the Irish language, correspondence from the planning authority to the applicant under subsection (4) shall be in the Irish language.”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That seems absolutely sensible. In plain English, what exactly does the insertion of the text in parentheses do? I am reading the paragraph to make sure I am completely clear. Obviously, in the first of these amendments it relates to an application for retention. Therefore, it applies to the application for retention individually in and of itself, or "in combination with any plan or other...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am not disputing it. I ask the Minister of State to explain it. I take it that "plan" means any existing plan like a development plan, local area plan or co-ordinated area plan and that "other project" means any other physical development that is taking place in the area.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Therefore, it is not just the retention application in and of itself - it is also that development in the context of plans and surrounding developments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is nice and clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak in support of amendment No. 649 and make three more general points for the Minister and his officials to consider separate to the amendment, on which he has made his position clear. My own local authority area, South Dublin County Council, has a very good online system. It is not just good for applications. There is a really good online mapping system where I do not even have...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to convince the Minister regarding the amendment. All I will say is that the delay is caused by two factors – the scanning of the documentation, as Deputy McAuliffe rightly outlined, and verification. There still an issue around delayed access to files and, as a result, there is a more limited time period for the public to engage. I hear what the Minister is saying...