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

Darragh O'Brien: I will, particularly given what the Deputy said about communications. Cybersecurity fits under the Department of Defence but communications feeds into that. I think we are covered but I will examine it.

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

Darragh O'Brien: That is it. It is detailed there as well, under section 165(1), where the Deputy will see reference to "not fewer than 10 housing units".

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

Darragh O'Brien: In any change the extension is material since the extension of the permission is material.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: We will discuss it with the commission. We had a discussion earlier and a few weeks ago as well. It was slightly different and in relation to resources for what is possible. We will discuss that with the commission. Then we will agree and publish them.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. Amendment No. 704 proposes to insert a reference to “industrial emissions licences” in section 120(3)(d). Similarly, amendment No. 745 makes the same amendment to section 139 relating to procedural powers of the commission when considering a material alteration request. Both amendments relate to omissions in Part 4 relating to procedural powers of the commission when...

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

Darragh O'Brien: There may be. There may be circumstances-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: There may be circumstances where there would be no need for this provision. The use of "may" is just to give flexibility around it, that is all.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 1186 seeks to amend Schedule 1, which lists the types of development that are to be known as "strategic infrastructure development". Paragraph 3(d) currently lists groundwater abstractions of a certain scale and this amendment seeks to include surface water abstractions also. This will facilitate Uisce Éireann projects for surface water abstractions where the annual...

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

Darragh O'Brien: It would be akin to a reservoir. It could be water abstraction from rivers but it would be something like a reservoir.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it is very large.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It brings that under Schedule 1 so it would be a strategic infrastructure development, effectively. It puts something of this size or magnitude into Schedule 1. A body can then make that application to the commission under the strategic infrastructure development provisions.

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

Darragh O'Brien: No, it includes, not replaces. If the Deputy turns to page 692-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It is for the work that Uisce Éireann will continue to undertake. It could relate to a weir or a new reservoir that is required in an area, for example. It allows such work to be included under strategic infrastructure development, which allows the applicant to -----

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

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy referred to subsection (3)(a)(ii)(II). What is the other one to which he referred?

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

Darragh O'Brien: It is a two-stage process, so four weeks is the first stage. Let us say an application is still live and has not been determined. The four weeks refers to the first period. If it is still not determined after four weeks, then the second period is six weeks and, therefore, between the two, there is a maximum of ten weeks. Where the commission fails to determine it within the first four...

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

Darragh O'Brien: That is the statutory period.