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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: They are, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: On the projects, they can be for social and economic reasons. In practice, across Europe, very few countries go down the imperative reasons of overriding public interest, IROPI, route. They still have to go through this three-step process. In the case of renewable energy projects, the Deputy mentioned the maritime protected areas, MPAs, and the MPA legislation. The idea behind them is a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes, I am talking about airports, for instance, where there may be-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: These specific cases might be plans which might affect priority habitats or priority species. That is where the IROPI part is relevant.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: This is quite complex, a Chathaoirligh, and it might be useful if we went into private session to consider these matters further.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will respond to that. Amendment No. 825 relates to section 183 of the Bill which provides for screening for appropriate assessment. The amendment if made would require that a screening report, when undertaken, would be published alongside the planning application. Section 183(7) provides that a determination in relation to a screening must be published along with the reasons for making...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: No, it is not a statutory requirement.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 830 relates to section 184 of the Bill regarding the preparation of a Natura impact report. The wording of section 184(2)(c) is intended to give effect to Article 6.3 of the habitats directive which provides: "Any plan or project not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site but likely to have a significant effect thereon, either individually or in...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: No is the answer. These are generally under an emergency scenario so there would not be cause to have the public involved in that. The public are notified. That is the only involvement of the public in that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Will I read the note on the amendment?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 874 and 875 relate to section 205 of the Bill. Section 205 provides for an exemption from the requirement to carry out an environmental impact assessment and gives effect to Article 2.4 of the EIA directive. In accordance with the directive, an exemption can only be granted in exceptional cases; where the application of the EIA directive would adversely impact the purpose...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: This amendment proposes to amend section 213, which provides for the EIA of relevant development and outlines conditions that may be attached to a grant of permission, which is of particular relevance to the proposed amendment. The amendment proposes that an additional condition, namely, "conditions for environmental and nature restoration" be included. This amendment is not necessary as...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendments No. 883 and 884 relate to section 214. The section outlines the additional provisions that apply to environmental impact assessments and screening for EIA in respect of applications for retrospective consent. Amendment No. 883 would insert a provision that the screening for EIA also take account of the "cumulative impact likely from the permitted developments in proximity to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: The objective is to try to retrospectively address issues where an EIA has not been carried out. The development has taken place so this tries to retrospectively deal with the issues that would have arisen from that particular development, if the Deputy understands.