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

Darragh O'Brien: It is not an investigation.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Section 135 is pretty clear.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It more than likely would for big developments. The Deputy knows what I mean. It involves a planning permission.

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

Darragh O'Brien: No. It is not for retention purposes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It could not be misused for such purposes. It is about the extension of permissions.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Sure. Amendments Nos. 725, 734-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: -----and 788. These amendments propose a number of changes to the material alteration provisions in section 137 and the expiration of permission provisions in section 166, which we have just discussed. They collectively aim to provide that a permission may be extended for no more than 24 months in cases where development has commenced and no more than five years in cases where it has not. ...

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

Darragh O'Brien: They are all on the same issue. Based on the discussion we have had, I do not propose to accept them.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It is up to ten years; it is not a default.

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

Darragh O'Brien: If they are not material, they will not have an environmental effect. The Dutch system is very different from ours. Section 137(5) states that a deciding authority shall give notice of a decision under subsection (1) in such form and manner, and to such persons, as may be prescribed, and section 137(6) lists what a notice under subsection (5) shall state. They relate to the material...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 784 seeks to amend section 164(3) to extend the ability to set a permission period of more than ten years for direct applications to the commission to include development by statutory undertakers under Chapter 3. Did Deputy McAuliffe move this?

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

Darragh O'Brien: I do not propose to accept it because I do not believe it is appropriate. The reason a permission of more than ten years may be appropriate for direct applications to the commission is that the type of development that is submitted directly to the commission is of a scale or complexity that it may require longer permitted timeframes. I cannot accept amendment No. 784. It does not matter...

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

Darragh O'Brien: We discussed that a few weeks ago as well.

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

Darragh O'Brien: We have engaged on statutory undertakers. I remember that this was discussed a couple of weeks ago concerning Uisce Éireann and a few other bodies. We have engaged on the role of statutory undertakers but I do not propose to accept the amendment.

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

Darragh O'Brien: The amendments with which that amendment is grouped collectively aim to provide that a permission may be extended for no more than 24 months. The amendment was tabled by Deputy McAuliffe and I do not propose to accept it. Did the Deputy table amendment No. 791 also?

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

Darragh O'Brien: I should have said we are dealing with it under amendment No. 791. That is the Government amendment and it incorporates much of what amendment No. 788 seeks to do. We have not got to amendment No. 791 yet.