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

Paul McAuliffe: With respect, Deputy, I have something to attend at 4 o'clock.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I have been here since 9 a.m. I did not have any issue with the Deputy's contribution.

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

Paul McAuliffe: My contribution was related to the Chair's proposal. It had nothing to do with Deputy O'Donoghue's.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On the two amendments, it probably reflects how our perspective has changed on onshore wind farms. Granting significant pieces of infrastructure planning permission on a time basis would be like in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s us considering motorways on a time basis. I think we now realise how important onshore infrastructure is. There is a significant strategic risk for Ireland in that,...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 593: In page 193, to delete lines 27 and 28, and substitute the following: “83. (1) When making its decision in relation to an application under this section, the planning authority or the Commission shall be restricted to considering the proper planning and sustainable development of the area, regard being had to—”.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I will withdraw it.

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

Paul McAuliffe: My comment is not on the substance of the matter because, to be honest, I have no more information. In fact, that is the point I wish to raise. It is difficult for me to be a member of the committee when there is a debate in which one member questions the contribution made by the Minister based on a document I do not have available to me. I do not have the Attorney General's advice. I do...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 607: In page 197, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “84. Planning authorities and the Commission shall, in so far as practicable, perform their functions under this Act and exercise any discretion in a manner consistent with— (a) the most recent approved climate action plan, (b) the most recent approved national long term climate...

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

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 608 to 611, inclusive, 617, 621, 622, 625, 626, 628 to 631, inclusive, and 640 are related and may be discussed together.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I was just going to suggest that.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Go ahead, Deputy.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I can speak to them all.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Amendments Nos. 626, 628 and 629 are in my name. Perhaps I could hear the Minister of State's response to those amendments.

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

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister of State can address all those amendments together.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Minister of State repeat his response on amendment No. 626?

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

Paul McAuliffe: On amendment No. 626, I think that may have been entered in error during the drafting process. I agree wholeheartedly with the Minister of State on the matter and will withdraw the amendment.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I would like to hear the Minister of State's response to my amendment No. 692.

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

Paul McAuliffe: We have not reached amendment No. 695.

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

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, I will not move amendment No. 692.

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

Paul McAuliffe: There is an angle to this. Like Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin, I have experienced this in the context of assisting people making observations on a planning application, and for myself. There is no doubt there are significant delays and that the scanning can be of poor quality. In essence, we are getting an electronic system outputting a printed format. We are then scanning the...