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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the number of persons from County Wicklow currently undergoing dialysis treatment; if any review is ongoing into the potential to offer this treatment in a primary care setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10777/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: This morning we continue our pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft planning and development Bill 2022. We are joined from the environmental and planning law committee of the Law Society by Ms Rachel Minch SC, committee chair, Mr. Conor Linehan SC, committee vice-chair, and Mr. Nap Keeling, committee member, and from the planning, environmental and local government Bar Association by Mr. Tom...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Thank you, Ms Minch. I invite Mr. Flynn to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: I thank Mr Flynn. In relation to that comment on section 250, it is very deficient and does not provide enough information as to what is being proposed. I suppose it is important to bear in mind that this is a first draft of a very large item of legislation and I expect there will be much more detail on that section in relation to costs. Both witnesses covered the point very well that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: On the subject of time limits, I must move on to Deputy Ó Broin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: At this point, it would be helpful if one of our guests was willing to give us a brief overview of the Supreme Court ruling on Heather Hill from last November. Members of the public will be watching this and we are dealing with public participation and standing here. Many of us have read it, and I am sure many people have read it but I am not sure many people would have the full...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: And that judgment only came last November. Thank you. That is very helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Which section is the substitute consent in, that is, the second last point Ms Minch made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Which volume is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Ms Minch can come back to us on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: It has not been raised with us, so far.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: With regard to the point Senator Boyhan made, an explanatory note would be helpful. I think it would run to much more than 738 pages. It would be another considerable body of work to try to get through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: We would all benefit from it. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage said it would produce a document to compare the changes. We have a document that compares the existing section number to the new section number as closely as possible. With regard to the sense that we do not see substantial changes once the Bill has been published, something similar to section 249(5) was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Could Mr. Flynn explain that to us briefly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: The matter is very much in the public interest so we will allow that. Do any of the witnesses wish to respond to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Steven Matthews: Yes, the constitutional issues.