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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suggest that if the discussion is on section 11, when we come to the question on section 11, the Deputy comes in at that point. I do not want to be going back to amendments we have already discussed because it opens it up to everybody.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Could we discuss that when we get to agree section 11 because I would rather keep the flow?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Sure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I withdraw my opposition to this section based on the Minister saying they had to go back and look at third parties and how they would be included in this declarations. Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan wish to speak on section 11.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes, definitely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Also, getting access to a section 5 declaration is quite simple because they are published on local authority websites and people can access them. In the context of what the Minister of State said about looking at the third-party access to section 10 declarations, I suspect something will have to be done in that regard as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan indicated to speak.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is grand. It fulfils the requirement to have discussed it. I will put the question on amendment No. 55.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Could I suggest that when we get to this-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will first deal with amendment No. 55, which has already been discussed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 62: In page 42, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(8) Where the Minister proposes to make regulations under this section, any unauthorised development which had a significant impact on the environment as a result of the development or has a significant impact on the environment as a result of the ongoing operation of the development, shall not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: SECTION 10

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will start with amendment No. 64 which is in my name, therefore I will need someone to take the Chair for this one please. We will deal with amendments Nos.64 to 83, inclusive, Nos. 88, 89, 91 to 96, inclusive, and Nos. 99 to 103, inclusive. These amendments are all related and will be taken together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 64: In page 42, to delete all words from and including “(1) In” in line 9, down to and including line 40, and in page 43, to delete lines 1 to 13.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: This amendment and a number of amendments that are grouped together in this deal with what are known in the current Act as section 5 declarations. They provide a service for people to seek a declaration from the planning authorities as to whether something is or is not development, and if it is development whether it is exempted or not. We had quite a lengthy discussion on this in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will interrupt. That is a newspaper article, I am sure the Irish Planning Institute is capable of engaging directly with the Minister so that we are not quoting reporters who are quoting as well. It is important that what we say here is accurate. It may be interesting in the newspaper and it may not be accurate. In any case, I am sure the Planning Institute has engaged and will engage....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will not be having any rows.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. I withdraw that and I thank the Deputy for clarifying that.