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

Malcolm Noonan: On the Deputy's first question, early 2025-----

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, early 2025. On the second question about local authority staffing, there are challenges in recruitment across the local government sector. Notwithstanding this, there has been an intake of additional planning staff across all local authorities. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, sanctioned that last year or the year before. The bigger issue for this legislation is as part of a broader...

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

Malcolm Noonan: On the SPPRs, the guidelines become national policy statements under section 25. They remain in place until replaced by the new national policy statements.

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

Malcolm Noonan: They are under consideration at present. Again, I do not have to hand which specific ones. I can revert back to the committee on those.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I know that.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, we can do that.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, that is something we must take back to the Minister. As I said, it is being prepared at present so it is still a work in progress.

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

Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 45 provides that the Minister shall lay a draft schedule of future legislation to deal with the following topics before the Oireachtas and committee, as mentioned by the members: reform of CPO powers, land value sharing tax, implementation of planning recommendations from the report of the expert committee on Traveller accommodation, and legislation relevant to the Act that...

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

Malcolm Noonan: I will respond to the issue of Traveller accommodation first if that is okay, in regard to category B and planning. Deputy Ó Broin raised the Part 8 approval process. Action B.2 in category B was to put in place the legislative provisions to suspend the reserved function of elected members for approval of Part 8 proposals for Traveller accommodation, and also to suspend the reserved...

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

Malcolm Noonan: I appreciate that.

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

Malcolm Noonan: We will look at that again. In regard to the conditions, they have to be enforceable. That is important. It is not the function of planners in local authorities to calculate embodied carbon. Obviously, in terms of a development that is brought forward, it is an important skill and competency within the profession. The architectural profession and the building profession will evolve over...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Amendments Nos. 129, 171, 176 and 180 relate to the national planning framework. Amendment Nos. 189 and 190 relate to national planning statements. Amendment Nos. 525 and 526 relate to an urgent direction requiring a chief executive to vary a development plan. Amendment No. 1042 relates to the proposing of fees by the commission. All these amendments deal with the same substantive issue,...

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

Malcolm Noonan: I will allow Deputy Ó Broin to respond first.

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

Malcolm Noonan: In what way?

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

Malcolm Noonan: Consultation is a democratic process.

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

Malcolm Noonan: No, I am not.

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

Malcolm Noonan: While it is often difficult to anticipate the time it may take for a Bill to progress through the Oireachtas, the following timelines are provided on the basis that this Bill will be enacted before the summer. It is also important to note that extensive work is currently being carried out, in parallel with the work on this Bill, on the revision of the planning and development regulations....

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

Malcolm Noonan: If it is okay, I will deal with that first before moving on to Traveller accommodation and planning. Deputies O’Callaghan and Ó Broin are correct about the need to consider reducing embodied carbon in our built environment. The point about the demolition of buildings was well made. Across Dublin, we routinely see perfectly good buildings that were built in the 1940s or 1950s...