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

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Minister of State is addressing the group but will he address specifically the idea that exempted developments will no longer be transparently available in the sense of being in primary legislation? We have not yet seen the exempted developments that might come by way of secondary legislation. I suggest we amend the Act to reinstate the powers in primary legislation. I...

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

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Department be in a position to bring forward those regulations in advance of Report Stage or in advance of the Bill going to the Seanad?

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

Paul McAuliffe: So it is likely that by the time it gets to the Seanad, people will have seen those regulations and at that stage it would still be open to amendment.

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

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister of State indicated there might be some transparency or we might get sight of those regulations in advance of the Seanad Stages, rather than in advance of Report Stage in the Dáil.

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

Paul McAuliffe: That sounds like you are resiling from your initial position.

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

Paul McAuliffe: There may be totally unfounded fears here. That is my point. We could address an issue very easily by giving people information. If that is possible, let us do it. Then it can be dealt with before it leaves the Seanad.

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

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise, Chairman.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I have literally just finished my remarks with the FAI and I hope to bring less ire to the discussion here. Given that I do not have my notes in front of me, my recollection of it is that the amendment refers to statutory undertakers, utilities-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for coming in unprepared. I am happy that it is going to be addressed on Report Stage. I ask the Minister to consider the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, I am happy to withdraw my amendment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I cannot comment about other local authorities but there have been occasions in Dublin city where very significant sites were delayed for a Part 8 planning process on the basis of, and I am trying to be as non-contentious as possible, a dispute over the nature of the make-up of the site. It would not necessarily only be about roads. It could be about the mixture of housing, the tenure, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister's response was that it will be raised on Report Stage.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I am conscious of the voting block.

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

Paul McAuliffe: It could happen at 7 p.m.

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

Paul McAuliffe: It is always difficult speaking about a general provision in legislation and then starting to discuss a specific site. We are not discussing a specific proposal for Moore Street, though I accept that is a possible application of it. The term "surrounding context of the structure" is very broad. My concern is it probably does not give a defined enough application of what Deputy Ó Broin...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I join colleagues on these amendments. There is a strong argument that if these structures are no longer being used as a telephone kiosk they are in breach of the original purpose for which planning was granted. The idea that they would be repurposed into Wi-Fi hot spots or phone charging points, which is happening in a number of cases, is just a farce and undermines the reason they were...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 108 and 110, I think, are about slightly different issues, and I think-----