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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on planning permissions and residential units 18. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report detailing the number of planning permissions and residential units to which section 14 of this Act may apply and making...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no enforcement of commencements. I understand the Minister's officials in the Department are liaising with local authorities with respect to determining whether developments that are availing of the development levy waiver and the water utility connection waiver are having a look at this. Local authorities do planning enforcement, but many do not even have the staff to do building...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on extensions 18. Every six months after the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the operation of the extension of duration detailing the number of developments that have availed of the extensions, the number of units granted extension that...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to my two amendments in this grouping. I said at the outset that we are not opposed in principle to a time-limited extension of duration. The challenge, however, is that there is no point giving somebody an extension of duration if they cannot demonstrate that something has changed and that what was previously unviable is now viable. I therefore think there needs to be some...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept the technical explanation but would just make one point. I ask the Minister to examine the principle behind this amendment and to discuss it with the Minister for justice and also, in the course of his work as Minister for housing, with the relevant members of the Judiciary. We need to fix this bit of the system too. There is little value in having statutory timelines for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, in consultation with the Minister for Justice and with the approval of Cabinet, introduce regulations to place High Court good practice guidelines on a statutory footing in order to have legally binding statutory timelines for the hearing of Judicial Reviews and for the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is precisely the problem. If this change to planning legislation had been included in the Planning and Development Act which we spent two years passing through the House, as a committee we could have asked, for example, planning law experts, professional planners and legal experts who specialise in Aarhus Convention compliance their views on this. One of the points I made on Second...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations for consideration by the planning authority to ensure compliance with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development.”. I want to make a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I briefly comment?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise to the Minister. I meant to say this on section 2. At some point during the Minister's responses to any of the clusters of amendments or the sections, it would be only right if he was able to give us any additional detail he has about the amendments he is intending to submit in the Seanad, that is, both the additional transitional amendments as well as the so-called permitted...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. When Deputy Darragh O'Brien was the Minister for housing and he launched a once-in-a-generation review on consolidation of the planning and development Acts, one of his main arguments was that the 2000 Act had been amended so many times that the legislation was unwieldy, too difficult to understand and overly complex...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Be careful what you wish for.