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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: To clarify, Deputy Bacik's amendments do not seek to amend section 164(3)(a) or (b).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I mentioned subsection (3)(a) and (b). However, on the Minister's arguments about MetroLink and so forth, Deputy Bacik's amendments would not affect an application such as this because she does not seek to amend subsection (3)(a) or (b).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Metrolink would surely be a subsection (3)(b) Chapter 4 development?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In any event, in such a development, Deputy Bacik's amendments would be covered under subsection (3)(a) but she is not seeking to amend subsection (3)(a). That is the point that was made.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was trying to be helpful to the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is what you get for trying to be helpful. On section 164(3)(a), apart from the wording there, is there anything else that specifies anything around that? I appreciate it is not a new provision. Is there anything else in the legislation or anything outside of the legislation around that at all? For example, in larger housing developments, from what the Minister knows, is that clause...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This would be for the likes of large SDZ or something like that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is that type of development I am talking about.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Finally on this, a large application like that which a planning authority may give a ten-year permission for would obviously have a phasing plan. Within that phasing plan, it would be stipulated that 400 homes would be completed within the first two years and some infrastructure by the third year. Therefore, while it might be for a large application of ten years, effectively there are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I cannot see how that would arise.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a question while we are talking about section 131 and section 130 as well, which the Minister has been referencing. Section 130(8) states: A direction or draft direction under this section shall not require the taking of remedial measures in relation to a development to which subsection (3) of section 320 applies that was carried out more than 7 years before the commencement of this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it is very specific because it does not refer to all draft directions. It is a very specific set of draft directions that only have regard to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction. If it is a standard provision why does it not apply to everything? The Bill is very specifically just putting this provision in with regard to unauthorised quarry development...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: This section is about remedial measures though.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to know why the "remedial measures" from section 130(8) are specific to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: There must be a reason for section 130(8) being linked to section 320(3). Otherwise the former would just link to time limits in general. Why is there this specific seven-year period in relation to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I get that part of the Bill and do not have an issue with that part of the Bill. My question is why that wording is then being applied to section 130(8), which states: A direction or draft direction under this section shall not require the taking of remedial measures in relation to a development to which subsection (3) of section 320 applies that was carried out more than 7 years before...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: In a sense it is going back to the original question. Why do we have section 130(8)? What is the rationale behind having it in the Bill and what is the concern around it not applying if it was carried out more than seven years before the commencement of this subsection? That is the original question and it still stands.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Remediation of unauthorised quarries and unauthorised peat extraction is very important in terms of environmental damage. It can be very difficult to remediate depending on the level of damage done. The concern is about a provision in the Bill that would prevent remedial action being required under section 130 if section 130(8) applies to it. Why have this prohibition? Why not at least...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have some knowledge of this area. If we take an unauthorised quarry and the damage that has been caused by it and if it comes to enforcement around it and remediation, remediation does not necessarily mean that you fill in the entire quarry, restore it, get a load of rock, bring it back to the quarry it once was and undo ten years of extraction. That does not necessarily mean remediation....