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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: No, I do not have a question on section 163.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: A key provision of this section is that there will be a phasing plan for developments consisting of ten housing units or more. Will the Minister of State give some indication of what a phasing plan for a relatively small development of, say, 15 or 20 houses might look like?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will I clarify the question?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sorry, I should clarify the question a bit. If there are 400 apartments built over five blocks, it is quite clear what the phasing plan might be. It might be that block 1 is in phase 1 or it might be in phase 2 and some parkland and open space in phase 1. Phase 2 could be blocks 3 and 4 and some more amenities. Block 5 might be the next phase and so on. It is clear what a phasing plan...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The schedule of works for scheme housing, even if it is only ten or 15 houses, is important in terms of when public areas, roads, footpaths, open spaces and so on will be completed. The scheduling of works is an important component that comes out from the phasing plan. I thank the Minister of State for that answer. Second, does section 165 allow a planning authority to insist on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I would like to further explain my question. What can happen with phasing in larger schemes - unfortunately we have all seen examples of this - is that phase one could involve 200 apartments, phase two could involve another 200 apartments and phase three could include another 100 apartments as well as a community facility that is promised to serve the entire development and some open space...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Sorry, where is that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is not specific to phasing plans but it applies to phasing plans, so that is where they could do this or how they could do it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for that reply, which is helpful. Would it not be better to make this a bit more explicit in the phasing plan section in order that it is clear that the planning authority or commission can reorder the phasing if that is desirable? A key weakness of phasing currently is that we get all of the really good community stuff in the last phase, but sometimes that is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it is really about the fact that the phasing plan comes entirely from the applicant. I totally understand that a draft phasing plan would come from the applicant but my concern is about explicitly giving the planning authority or commission the ability to intervene and put a better order on the phasing. This is a really useful mechanism. I have given an example already, although...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is on the conditions that may be attached to planning permission. Can the sequencing of works tie in with phasing?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: For the record, I believe it would be better to include it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the implementation of Circular 0002/2024, given the serious concerns around the reduction in SET hours for students and the removal of children with complex needs as a criterion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17096/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will look into practical issues applicants are experiencing with the vacant property refurbishment grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17094/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider classifying Covid-19 as an occupational illness, as has been recommended in many EU member states; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17095/24]