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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is purely practical.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I suppose I am-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to go back to the provisions in the Act. The Deputy might give me a bit of time to pull out the relevant information. I want to get this correct for him.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Each local authority and each planner will look at a case on its merits. That is their professional expertise. Initially in the case, technically in the main they will decide to grant it, refuse it or ask for further information. If a situation arises where a small bit more time is needed to make a decision and they discuss this with the applicant and the applicant asks them to make a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: For clarity, the note the officials will go through will be a sequential note that will say where it starts, the various sequences in terms of planning, the eight weeks, further information, FI, requests, the extension of time, and comparison between what is in the current planning Bill and what will be in the new section 98. That should provide absolute-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Housing for All commits to reviewing the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability scheme and a report on the review has been prepared by my Department. The review was informed by engagement with external stakeholders, including the Department of Health, the HSE, the Disability Federation of Ireland and the Irish Wheelchair Association. Written submissions were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 253 and 254 together. My Department provides funding to local authorities under the Disabled Persons Grants scheme to carry out works on social housing stock to address the needs of older people, people with a disability or overcrowded situations. Extensions to provide for ground floor bathrooms and bedrooms can also be supported. This programme also...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Subsection 24(2).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan. Amendment No. 211 proposes to amend subsection (2) of section 24 by changing "may" to "shall" for the purposes of consultation with specified bodies in advance of issuing a national planning statement. The use of "shall" puts a mandatory requirement on the Minster to undertake consultation. It is generally the case that the Minister, on behalf...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It can in an emergency or if there is an urgent need.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Government will make the decision on what is an emergency.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Governments have to make decisions. The regulation of the institutional bulk purchase of housing was one such section 28 guideline that did not go out for public consultation. There was an urgency to bring that in straight away. It might be to do with a pandemic or how the system would run but generally, the intention would be that if we are doing a national planning statement we would be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, that would come in under-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We beg to differ on that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: The general intention is that the national planning statements would go out for public consultation, as is the case with section 28 guidelines but that is not on a statutory footing. It is done in practice. It is not in the current Planning and Development Act 2000. It is a positive measure that has been put in section 24(2).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: In 2020, there was a section 28 guideline on the approach to planning enforcement during Covid. This was for the hours of operation of retailers. Section 24(2) adds to what is in the Planning and Development Act 2000 where it now provides for public consultation. We believe that we cannot include "shall" because there may be situations - and Deputy Ó Broin may find himself in...