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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: It would be interesting to know why, given the focus of the Bill, we felt the need to so radically reform this section, this process. As I said, it is not an area of the planning system that would appear to add to the overall delays. In fact, the new process may actually lead to further delays. Does the Minister accept that?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: There definitely needs to be more engagement with some of the utility companies on it because-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I know from the engagement - I am looking at my notes here - that their concern is that it essentially adds more time at this stage, and I think-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, Chair, I am happy to withdraw the amendments. I will refer to that when we come to them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I will withdraw this amendment on the basis of the discussion and with the view to revisiting the issue on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 665: In page 219, line 37, to delete “Where” and substitute “In exceptional circumstances, where”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 667: In page 220, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(5) The Minister may by regulations provide for such situations where exceptional circumstances arise, either generally or with reference to any particular category of development scheme appeals, where it appears to him or her to be necessary, by virtue of exceptional circumstances, to do so...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: We are trying to balance the desire for longer-term planning with the ability of, in particular, new councillors who might be elected in the second half of a development plan to have an input. There is also the question of the very necessary change in how a community might develop. I do not think it is unreasonable to suggest that a councillor, rather than just the chief executive, might be...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 484: In page 129, line 8, after “market” to insert “or other considerations”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Does Deputy O'Callaghan wish to speak on this point or on his amendment?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Do you want to come it at this point in advance of the Minister?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Let us speak to the group and the Minister can reply.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Gould on this point, and we will take Deputy Matthews separately.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputies Ó Broin and Gould have indicated. We are covering areas that we have already discussed at length. Perhaps these will be the last contributions from Deputies Gould and Ó Broin and we will then move on.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Is the Minister not in a position to accept the amendments?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 531: In page 154, after line 37, to insert the following: “Permitting of Lifetime Extensions on Existing Windfarms 67. Lifetime extensions for existing permitted wind farms shall be permitted following either a notification or a planning application to the relevant authority. That authority shall decide within eight weeks of receipt of a notification whether...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: We can take them all together, and I will come back in.