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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: If there is nobody to move amendment No. 500 when we get to it, then it would fall. It is grouped here for discussion.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask for clarification on, I think, amendment No. 932. It is the one that refers to special amenity area orders. I think this has been answered. If an order was made under the previous section 202, that order remains valid. If that order has not been enacted by a local authority, it still remains valid, I presume, and transitions across with amendment No. 932.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: A ministerial order for a special area of amenity is not time-bound; it continues until it is enacted. I just wanted to clarify that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23, 128, 177 to 179, inclusive, 1089, 1090, 1095, 1099, 1100, 1122 to 1125, inclusive, and 1136 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Go raibh maith agat. The amendment is withdrawn, with the right to reintroduce on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will continue. The Minister of State has a number of amendments grouped in this section. We will take them all together. Deputies have other amendments in this grouping too.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will ask the Minister of State to speak to his amendments first, and then we can go back and go through them in chronological order if the Deputies wish. I need to make sure all the amendments are spoken to in order to be covered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will try it with this one, as we did with the last, and then we will make a decision on it afterwards. Is that okay?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to move amendment No. 4 and then speak to the amendments in the group.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Thank you. I am happy to go through those amendments now if Members wish. Also in this group is amendment No. 5 in the names of Deputies Duffy, Cian O'Callaghan, Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh, if anyone wishes to speak to that. Amendment No. 29 in the name of Deputy McAuliffe is in this group too.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I invite the Minister of State want to respond on amendment No. 5 and then I will go Members on the other amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Is this a matter for the Business Committee? I do not know whether it is a matter for this committee.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I take the point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I would like to make a point for clarity. Managing the impact of climate change does not rule out adaptation or mitigation. It is managing or reducing greenhouse gases, whatever that management might be.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are writing law here. If we were to say "measures to manage" it does not rule out mitigation and it does not rule out adaptation. This is my view on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: There are other amendments in the group. I invite Deputy Flaherty to speak on amendment No. 28 and Deputy McAuliffe to speak on amendment No. 29. We can then discuss them all in the round.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I have a note to say that amendment No. 29 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 28.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That deals with amendment No. 29 also if "water" covers wastewater services.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I think that satisfies the amendments of Deputies Flaherty and McAuliffe, if I am reading that right. We will return to the Minister's amendments.