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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will see what we can do on it. I do not want to start redoing work that the Bills Office does already.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Will the Minister address those amendments in the next subgrouping then please?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Before the Minister responds, we are going to break at 5 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. I will adjourn the committee now. We will reconvene at 6.06 p.m in this committee room. Go raibh maith agaibh.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will continue from where we were, which was amendment No. 30. The Minister is going to speak to another subgroup.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Nobody else is offering. We have one final subsection. Or two, is it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 430 was tabled by Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Cathasaigh.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I have not ticked amendment No. 390 off my list.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask Deputy McAuliffe, if he can hear me, to mute his microphone.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I want to move on from this section now and get to amendment No. 30.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Before I put the question on amendment No. 30, you want to speak to the amendment, Deputy O'Callaghan. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Sorry. I thought you wanted to come in on amendment No. 30.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I agreed to withdraw amendment No. 31, in my name, because the Minister agreed to return to the matter at a later point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I would like clarity on something in the amendment from those who moved it and the Minister might answer on it as well. The table is not a bad idea, but I note in the table the Deputies have given that for some of the directives they list the EC number but do not name the directive and in some they name the directive but not the EC number. I am wondering if that adds more conclusion than...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay, but in the amendment why are some directives named by their names, such as the birds directive, but not given the EU - or EEC or whatever it was at the time - number. Is there a reason for doing it that way?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, to the committee. Amendments Nos. 36 to 42, inclusive, are related and may be taken together. Amendment No. 37 is a physical alternative to No. 36.