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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is about lowering the threshold.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How is it not?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That does not address my question in the sense that I fully accept the phrase "substantial works", if it is just the phrase "substantial works" that is legally ambiguous. The Minister of State had one option, which would have been to provide regulations to clarify very explicitly what substantial works were. The Minister of State has chosen not to do that. Instead, he has used a different...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me ask the Minister of State this question. We are taking out the words "substantial works" and putting in the word "commenced" but the Minister of State is telling me that the regulations that will underpin and provide the clarity and certainty to "commenced" will set out what would be "substantial works".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That could be done by way of regulations in respect of the existing wording.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Maybe I am just getting cranky because of the late hour but that is not what that does. What that does is set out that the planning authority will require certain documents and information. We have old language from the Bill, which is not clear. We have new language from the Bill, which is not clear. The Minister of State tells us there will be regulations and that is where the clarity...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a further question on these three amendments. With regard to the transitional arrangements, obviously the existing provision of "substantial works" will be gone if and when this Bill is enacted. What kind of transitional arrangement will there be? Will the existing provisions continue until such time as this new, not necessarily very clear, provision is enacted or what will the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we are clear on the transitional arrangements, is the Minister of State saying that after the passage of this Act any existing planning permission that is two years into its existing permission will avail of the existing provisions of the existing Act?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: From the date of the enactment of this Bill, anyone with planning permission can apply under the existing-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Under the existing provisions, not the new provisions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For what period of time?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is no matter where they are in their planning permission.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is a two-year period and then any new planning permission will have to be applied for under the provisions of this Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that because these provisions will not be enacted for two years? Why is there a two year period? Is it a possibility that this permission could be enacted but existing planning permissions would have to apply under the old Act or would they have a choice?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise and I do not want to hog the discussion but most of the transitional mechanisms that we have agreed to date are notwithstanding the fact the existing Act no longer exists-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay, but most of the transition provisions we have dealt with recognise there will be a period between the ending of the old Act and the enactment of the new Act and therefore during that interregnum the old Act applies. In this section the Minister of State is actually saying it is a definite two-year period. Does this mean these provisions will not be enacted for two years or could they...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that mean that no permission granted under the old Act would ever be able to avail of the provision under the new Act?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: After two years.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not clear on that but I might ask one of the officials to explain it outside.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the status of a build for a school (details supplied); if a contractor has been appointed; if a timeline is available for the commencement and completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13669/24]