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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: I am not sure I can support the amendment as it is, but I am more than happy for the Minister of State to come back to us on Report Stage, if that is what he is recommending. I am minded not to support amendment No. 11 at this point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Part of the problem is that the Minister of State seems to be defining "site" in a very geographically specific way-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----as opposed to it being a more generic term, which is my understanding of its original legislative meaning.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I could be so cheeky, the Minister of State could always withdraw the three amendments, clarify the matter and reintroduce them. It would save us having to oppose them. I offer that as a constructive suggestion. Specifically in relation to amendment No. 33, obviously this is a new text that is replacing the text in the existing legislation. I ask the Minister of State to confirm, on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not so sure the Minister of State can say he is happy with it if he cannot actually explain what "over" and "under" mean, but I will leave that to him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When we were dealing with some of the original legislation, as the Minister of State will remember, we had very lengthy discussions around these things. Depending on how high or how deep they are, the types of development, or indeed unauthorised development, change significantly. I ask the Minister of State to confirm that in amendment No. 33, nothing has been omitted or left out from the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 33.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not being awkward, but the Minister of State just said there is no definition, but it is a defined area. How can a-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Who gets to define how high over or how deep under it is? If this is to do with granting development or making decisions on unauthorised development, surely that is important.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will not get to amendment No. 11.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We are not going to-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have an outstanding request. I ask the Minister of State to clarify that under amendment No. 33, nothing has been omitted or excluded from the earlier definitions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is my question. If I understood the Minister of State's original speaking note, amendment No. 33 removes a previous set of definitions around unauthorised development and there is a new set.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What I want the Minister of State to confirm, on the record, is that the new set does not remove or omit anything that was covered by the previous definitions, and that everything that was previously covered is covered. The language of it is different, and there might be some new areas covered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to explain amendment No. 585 in a bit more detail. I know we will get to Chapter 6 later, but given that we are all new to this it might help if the Minister of State is able to give us a bit more detail on Chapter 6, State authority emergency development, in the context of this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. The ministerial amendment No. 585 deletes the following: "(d) proposed Chapter 6 State authority emergency development in respect of which the State authority concerned is required to comply with sections 152 and 154." Section 152, on page 290, refers to a "Public notification procedure". Section 154, on page 294, refers to "Confirmation by State authority". First, it would be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I am reading the two relevant sections which would no longer apply. Section 154, on confirmation by State authority, includes, for example, "notify the planning authority within whose functional area it is proposed to carry out the development concerned" and "notify each person who made a submission in respect of the proposed development". Without going into the details, we had a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For example.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So I am clear, building and fire safety regulations apply completely, as they should. Essentially, what is being removed is any public participation. Why was it in there in the first place? It would seem to me that there is a certain rationale to what has been proposed. I just do not know why it was put in the Bill initially and why it is then being removed. Was it an error?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Did somebody at one stage make a case that it should be there and then a case was made that it should be removed?