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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: Correct.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Correct.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a change in what is currently there. This Bill defines that the extension time period can only be four weeks. It is quite time limited.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Just for smoothness, we will provide that note.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: We are looking at sections 98, 124 and 141 versus section 34.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Versus section 34.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Both. For absolute clarity, Deputy Ó Broin referenced conflicts of interest. On page 637, section 490 is about the code of conduct. This is to give absolute reassurance to the Deputy.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not think the Deputy can say that.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 297: In page 95, line 11, to delete “3 working days” and substitute “5 working days”. Government amendments Nos. 297 to 299, inclusive, 520 to 523, inclusive, 574, 576, 578, 666, 715, 757 and 753 extend the number of days provided for a number of tasks in Part 3, which relates to the making of plans, taking on board the operational...

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-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, if there is a five-year permission, it will be known from within the context of that permission. The local authority will have an idea of how long, typically, it will take to build what is provided for under the permission and the yield over the years. Therefore, the meaning of this text will really come down to looking at the scale of the planning permissions and how long it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would hope they might be a bit more granular than that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. I refer to looking to local authorities going down through this context. Some of them are already doing this. I would have thought it would not be an onerous exercise to go in and look.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 10 of the existing development plan deals with this. Within that Act, it was amended for the climate action plans under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. It makes it more structured. It is, in essence, the same content as section 10 of the current Act. It just lays it out quite directly. It is a more structured reorganisation of what is currently in section 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We may need to update the references.