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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The difficulty is on the one hand the Minister is saying this Bill is not the right place to address this issue, but he is also saying it is not his intention to formally initiate a review of Part M.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister mind my asking whether it is his intention to initiate a formal review of Part M? That is what those groups have asked him to do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: To continue the point I was going to make, on the one hand the Minister is saying this Bill is not the appropriate place to do it. On the other he is saying it should be a change to building control, but he has yet to decide whether he is going to initiate that review. If he were to initiate it, they typically take at least a year and that would only then start to work into the next cycle...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Even weaker.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very helpful. Given that the new Part 23 is very significant, could we ask some questions on that first before we get into the other transitional mechanisms?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is brilliant.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It will take a bit of time to work out the best way to process some of this material. My remarks are in no way a criticism. We are talking about a series of very important transitional mechanisms. I appreciate that the Minister of State had to read out a statement but I am still very unclear as to how some of the mechanisms are going to work. I have a couple of general questions on the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This leads to a question I asked at the start. I will ask it in the context of these provisions also. Upon the passage of the Bill, the Act of 2000 is repealed, but until the enactment of the relevant new sections of the Bill-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister might explain that. Is there some sense of a timeline of enactment, even for these? I know that it is very difficult but can the Minister of State give us some sense of what we are looking at?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Could there be no plan if a replacement plan is not put in place? Would it just fall?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It falls.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister of State or any of his officials know how many, if any, of our local authorities are still in or are about to commence a development plan review? Nearly all of them must be complete.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: There might be two, according to one of the Minister of State’s officials. The reason I am asking-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It would be good - it does not have to be today - if the Minister of State could confirm which local authorities are in that position. The only reason I say this is that elected members and councillors from those administrative areas-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason I ask is that it would be very important to a Deputy or a councillor from one of those local authority areas to know that the local area plan, in all likelihood, is simply going to fall and is not likely to be replaced by any of the new plans. Those sections of the Bill will have to be enacted and those plans will have to be produced. It is not likely that a replacement plan...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. My apologies to the Minister of State but my point is a separate one. There has been great anticipation for these transitional mechanisms, both in the House and more generally, because people want to know how they are going to operate. It is important that we take time to go through this so that people are clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Even if that ambitious-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The point I wish to make is an important one for the Minister of State to understand. Even if that ambitious enactment deadline-----