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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is about the commission. Those sections allow the commission or the planning authority to seek further information in relation to a material alteration request. Does section 135, which is about extensions of permissions, allow a planning authority to seek further information?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A material alteration that is talked about in sections 138 and 139 includes an extension of permission, as is covered in section 135.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. So an extension or permission is a material-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: -----alteration. Therefore, the planning authority or the commission can seek further information.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: If it has not been provided in their application for an extension, could they seek more information about why the planning permission was not built out in time, if they want to get more information about that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: So it is there.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: All of my questions are reasonable.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will be. My question relates to section 135 but also involves section 138, which sets out the "Procedural powers of planning authority in relation to material alteration request" and section 139, which similarly sets out the "Procedural powers of Commission in relation to material alteration request".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A non-material extension of duration shall be granted under section 136. Why? What is the rationale for that? What kind of permissions would not be material, thereby causing an extension to the duration of the permission to be automatically granted?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of the extension of time on it, if it is so exceptional then why is it an automatic grant of the extension to the time?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: While I can absolutely see circumstances where this would be needed and justified my question is that there is no actual option for the local authority or planning authority on this because the section just states that it will be granted.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The extension of the permission.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: If someone looks for a five-year extension to do non-material works that are minor does this mean they have to be given the five years even though these are minor works that should have been completed within the five years? Such works may reasonably require another six months or another year. If they have looked for their five year extension, as the Minister said, must they be given five...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: But this section states that it has to be granted. If the applicant seeks five years for something minor and non-material to finish off the development, does this mean the planning authority has to give the developer the five years to finish off the development? Could this not cause problems?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The problem with this wording is that it does not give the planning authority the discretion or the option to tell the developer, when they are looking for a five year extension for non-material works to finish and complete the development, that the planning authority believes it is unreasonable the developer would need five years to do that, and that the planning authority could say to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: They would have the five years.