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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: Is there not a requirement for councillors to report back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: I refer to the joint area plans across two local authorities. Is what is proposed there an improvement on what is there at the moment? I am thinking of my own local authority with Dún Laoghaire to the north of it. The areas are very close together. They are almost one urban area but divided by county borders. Do the joint area plans offer better opportunities for councillor feedback...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: There is no one else indicating to ask questions but if anyone has any last comments I would be happy to take them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: That figure of 541 was the estimate for the local authority requirement only. We also have the requirement for planning staff in the Office of the Planning Regulator, An Bord Pleanála and the regional assemblies. If there are any student planners listening, there are plenty of opportunities in the future. As someone said, planning is not an exact science or formula where you know...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding grant support for taxi drivers to purchase electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8384/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: 517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports detailing serious structural concerns and required upgrades to a school (details supplied); the way that management of the facility can seek funding to carry out this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: 600. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the extension of free GP cards for children beyond the existing age parameters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8107/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: 746. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grant support is being considered to support community groups including one such group (details supplied) to assist with purchasing electric vehicles to provide transport for sick clients and members to hospital appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8185/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (22 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: 139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to significant wait periods to get a fire safety certificate from Wicklow County Council (details supplied) for completed building works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9004/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: Good morning everybody, and welcome to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage where we are carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on the proposed planning and development Bill 2022. This morning we are joined by members of the Irish Planning Institute, IPI, and the Royal Town Planning Institute Ireland, RTPI. They are all very welcome here to assist us in the scrutiny....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: Thank you Mr. Lawlor. That section by section submission that you are proposing to submit would be welcomed by the committee. We would like to get eyes on that. Do you have any idea when you would have that completed, because that is a substantial bit of work to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: We are aiming to have our pre-legislative scrutiny report completed by the end of March, which is about five weeks or so away. This round of pre-legislative scrutiny finishes on 9 March. In the following three weeks, we will compile the submissions from the expert witnesses who have came in and also written submissions that we sought from other sectors, because we could not accommodate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: Ms Brennan mentioned the RIAI in her submission. For the record, we invited its representatives to attend today and they were unable to attend, but we will accommodate them during Thursday's session because it is important that we hear from them as well. I will move now to questions from the members, which will be in eight-minute segments. I call Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: What section is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: I apologise that we will have to move on because we only have eight minutes per segment. We will have time to get back to him. It was section 335 to which Mr. Lawlor was referring. I call Deputy Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: On Deputy Higgins's point there, some of the scanned documents are also illegible then, such as scanned drawings that appear in applications. I call Senator Boyhan to speak next, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will ask Ms Brennan to address that question, first, for the RTPI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is a direct submission to the board. I agree with the Senator. The information should be available. I think there is a limit of 12 years of storage on other information, which I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: I wish to return to sections 334 and 335 with regard to access to information and the length of time for which it is available. I will ask some other questions, but we might come back to it. With regard to what are known as section 5 declarations at present, now called section 8, at the local authority level, do the members of the organisations before us find that section 5 declarations...