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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is possible.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Functions (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The role of my Department in the National Agricultural Inspection Programme has been to: Establish the programme under the 5thNitrates Action Programme and give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversight of the programme,Sit on the EPA-chaired National Agricultural Inspection Programme (NAIP) Working Group to ensure that all relevant current and emerging policy matters are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not compile the information requested. The Water Services Act 2007 (as amended) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to produce a national inspection plan for domestic waste water treatment systems, also known as septic tanks. The EPA report on the implementation of the plan and publishes information on inspections and enforcement on an annual basis. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 100 together. Local authority income from commercial rates and from the provision of goods and services are published annually by local authorities in their Annual Financial Statements (AFS). Each local authority is required to prepare an AFS by the end of March following the year end and to publish it by the end of June. The information is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regional Assemblies (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The chief executive of the local authority in question is currently fulfilling the role of designated chief executive for the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly (EMRA). This is an unpaid, largely advisory role to the regional assembly. The roles of designated chief executive for the three regional assemblies were initially filled in 2014 at the direction of the then Minister for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Give me a second.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is grouping 12. On which amendment is the Deputy speaking?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputies for the amendment. Throughout the Bill everything has been checked to ensure Aarhus Convention compliance. That is a general point. The idea that it is not is incorrect. In regard to the proposed amendment No. 54, there is a definition here that states a development is not exempt where the activity may have a significant impact on the environment. What is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy very much. I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I genuinely do not question the reasons members table amendments or their bona fides in doing so. That is why we are here on Committee Stage. It is important to note that there are no current planning infringements.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I just want to make the point that there are no cases in that regard. To go back to the amendment, Deputy Ó Broin referred to the definition of "significant". That is not a criticism but a genuine point. I assure the Deputy that the Government's legal advice all the way through this Bill and in everything we did – it was not just a catch-all point but a fact that needs to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: As discussed previously, exempted development will be set out in regulation, as it is anyway. Could the Deputy provide an example? In what scenario would he see that happening in terms of what he has put forward there?