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

Cian O'Callaghan: What about a situation where new and particularly significant information comes to light that is neither false information provided by the first party nor information that had specifically been withheld?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Why is that not provided for in the Bill? I appreciate that this may not happen often.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: If significant information that was not withheld by the first party or that was provided falsely by that party comes to light, why does the Bill prohibit its use in court by the enforcement authority? What is the rationale for doing that? I am not familiar with other provisions in other Bills like this which create this situation where, no matter what new information comes to light, an...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate that.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: This seems to assume that the only source of information could be the first party. Surely there are other potential sources of information. Often, the main source of information may indeed be the first party. I totally accept that. Surely in some circumstances there could be relevant information. Even if there are no third party rights, it could still be relevant information to the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Minister of State accept that the local authority may have other sources of information apart from the first party if it wants to pursue enforcement proceedings? This seems to tie the hands of the enforcement authority. Why is the Government doing that?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The enforcement authority, yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The local authority is the enforcement authority and is also the planning authority.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Currently, most of the new housing supply, for example, to serve the GDA that is available to purchase is happening outside of Dublin.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: We will not be able to discuss it when it comes to the point of voting.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It can be moved and voted on.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: For clarity, the article is signed by Gavin Lawlor, president of the Irish Planning Institute. It is specifically about this Bill and he specifically mentions the issues we are discussing now. He says: Unnecessary changes include amendments to the process ...allowing the public to seek declarations on whether a particular development needs planning permission. At their core, these seek...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am speaking on my amendments Nos. 66, 67, 69, 71, 91, 93, 94, 96, 101 and 103. The last ones are slightly different as they talk about a relevant declaration. Essentially, these amendments are well grouped. Almost all of them simply seek to keep the provisions in the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Government is proposing to take out a small number of words, but they are...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a short point.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister has referenced looking at the environmental groups. To give an example, you could have a very scenic area of natural beauty. You could have development that takes place in it. The people who carry out the development may view it as being exempted development but there are lots of people who that could have an impact on, and who might have an opinion on it. It is not just...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am sorry. I apologise. That is just the point I wanted to make - that it is fine as an example, but I hope when the Minister is looking at this he will look at restoring third party rights. There is a variety reasons as to why a wider group of people have an interest.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Although amendment No. 101 is in the grouping and we had a good discussion on the issues related to that grouping, I did not address the specifics in the amendment. It seeks to insert that a relevant declaration, which is a declaration under what we know as a section 5 process, shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings brought by a person, other than an enforcement authority,...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Can I be left out of all these examples, please?