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

Steven Matthews: I will bring in Deputy Boyd Barrett who indicated and then Deputy Ó Broin.

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

Steven Matthews: Yes.

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

Steven Matthews: Does Deputy O'Callaghan want to come in?

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

Steven Matthews: I am not clear on Deputy Ó Broin's question. Is he asking about how high over the maritime area a development is in feet, for example, 33,000 ft or 15 ft?

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin wants clarification on amendment No. 11. Is that correct? It is just so we that know what we are coming back to. I am conscious that if we get to amendment No. 11-----

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

Steven Matthews: We are unlikely to. It is just to get that clarification.

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

Steven Matthews: The Deputy is right. We should try to try to get that clarification as soon as possible. Was Deputy O'Callaghan indicating there?

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

Steven Matthews: Just to be clear, we are looking for clarification on where "maritime site" or "maritime area" is used and the reasons for that. Under amendment No. 11, we are asking if there is a definition of "on, in, over or under". I think we can move on. Did Deputy O'Callaghan say he had other questions?

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

Steven Matthews: We are still on the grouping.

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

Steven Matthews: Public notification and confirmation are not required.

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

Steven Matthews: Go ahead, yes.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 8, 9, 53, 85, 87, 90, 98, 598, 603, 619, 623, 647, 683, 709, 890, 921, 1036, 1040, 111, 1127, 1128, 1132 and 1133 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin has indicated he also wishes to speak to amendment No. 709.

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

Steven Matthews: Does Deputy Ó Broin want to continue with the rest of the amendments or do any other members wish to speak? For the information of Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, we are taking these as a group. They are related to Irish.

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

Steven Matthews: I get the Deputy's point but that is the way they are set out for me by the Bills Office, which proposed to take these as a grouping and discuss them together. I just want to logically make sure they are all spoken to.

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

Steven Matthews: The way we had set about this was to take Deputy O'Callaghan's amendments first because No. 8 is one of his and they are all grouped together. I am quite happy to come back to No. 9 and to discuss them all.

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

Steven Matthews: On Deputy Ó Broin's suggestion, we will go back to No. 9 and try to put some chronological order on the discussion. I appreciate the point Deputy Ó Cathasaigh made that it is all to do with as Gaeilge but not all to do with the same issue.

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

Steven Matthews: I will give it another ten minutes because we went over until 6.10 p.m. I said we would do a two-hour slot on this, so we will give it another ten minutes. We will have to return to this tomorrow anyway, but we can try to clear as much as we can.

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

Steven Matthews: I am sorry to have to cut the Deputy short on this.

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

Steven Matthews: It is 8.09 p.m. now, so that is our session finished. On a housekeeping matter, amendment No. 1129, which was spoken to, is not in that grouping rather it is in a grouping with amendment No. 30. We will come back to that. It is with amendment No. 30, therefore, amendment No. 1129 will get two outings. We will continue tomorrow at 10 a.m. I do not know which committee room we will be...