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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The interesting thing about the bus stops is that the argument made was that there was such a volume of them that they should be exempted developments and it was not an unreasonable decision.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is where the location of existing bus stops is moved.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They would be also be covered under the exempted development regulations and are already in the list of exempted developments, so no licence would be required.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is to provide accessibility for disabled bus users.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: These amendments are in three groups. The first is amendments Nos. 112 and 113-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We will deal first with amendments Nos. 112 to 114, inclusive, because they relate to the same section. As I read it, section 12(8)(b) relates to an application for a licence and if a local or planning authority does not make a decision on the application within a set period of time, or if it does not make a decision within a set period after securing additional information, there is an...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Where is the Minister of State reading from?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: On staffing, as the Minister of State will know, the CCMA said a year and half ago that more than 530 additional staff were needed. They have sanction for an extra 100 but I do not believe they have been employed and the workload is increasing. Staff numbers are way behind what they need to be. That is a separate matter. I want to get this right. Is the Minister of State saying there is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. With respect to the interaction of section 12(8)(b), which my amendments relate to, and subsection (d), is the Minister of State saying that in cases where the licence application has been granted or additional information has been provided, the planning authority can seek a further eight-week extension under the terms of subsection (d)?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does the term "seek" mean that the applicant for the licence has to consent to that? Is it simply the local authority or planning authority providing themselves with an additional eight weeks?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That means, in real terms, there could be, under these provisions, a 16-week period from the date of application if, prior to the conclusion of the first eight-week period set out in section 12(8)(b), the planning authority could seek an additional eight weeks? Likewise, there could be a 12-week period under section 12(8)(b)(II) where, just before the four-week period expires, the planning...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Ultimately, there can be 16 weeks under subsection (8)(b)(I) when we add-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If I am the planning authority and, coming to the end of week eight, I notify the party of the extension, how much time am I given? Is it eight weeks on top of the original eight weeks, or is it less time?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If I submit an application for a licence and there is an eight-week timeline, and if a decision is not made within eight weeks there is a default grant. However, if the Planning Authority on the second last day of the eight weeks notifies me that under exceptional circumstances it is applying subsection (8)(d), it gets a further eight weeks.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does that also apply to the four weeks for additional information? It applies in both cases.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. It is just in the first and not in the second.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is the term "exceptional circumstances" set out in the Act or by way of regulation? What would be considered exceptional circumstances? Would not having sufficient staff to make an appropriate decision within eight weeks suffice? I presume there are regulations that govern this now, so it is not the case that new ones will have to be produced.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There would be pretty wide latitude for a local authority to stipulate the exceptional circumstances.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is my point. I do not know when the section was originally inserted into the Planning and Development Act. I presume it was not in the original 2000 Act; it came in at a later stage on foot of EU directives. Our planning system is inherently more complex than it was then. Obviously, we are moving to a stage where there is a greater level of development. Our local authority planning...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The term "exceptional" is not set out anywhere. It is done on a case-by-case basis.