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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That would be helpful. When I was drafting amendment No. 62, an alarm bell rang in my head regarding what a significant impact on the environment is and how that would be measured. I think the Minister also raised that point in response to Deputy O'Callaghan. We cannot have cases where we are aware of ongoing impacts to the environment but where the development does not meet the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 52: In page 41, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) development consisting of the change of use or partial change of use of any existing building where the height of the top storey is no more than 10 metres above ground level from any use other than residential to residential use and the works ancillary to any change of use,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 55, 593 to 595, inclusive, 597, 599, 600, 604, 605 and 723 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will come to that. I will give the Deputy a moment. Before we proceed we should invite the officials back into the committee room first. While committee members are present, our meeting schedule as agreed today was from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There was a two-hour break in between. I propose we take a one-hour break and meet from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. if members are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Again, it is just about that flexibility of meeting times. If it is not agreed, it is not agreed and we will stick to the original arrangement.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We could go until 5 p.m. and then just do---

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will still have four hours. We will suspend at 4 p.m. and come back at 6 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: The voting block may interfere with it also.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I do not know.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will press on anyway. We have made a bit of progress. We will keep going. I ask Deputy Ó Broin to speak on amendment No. 55.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am envisaging a case where it is beyond the statutory period for enforcement action and somebody seeks to carry out an exempted development. If it has been there for, say, ten years and the neighbour can no longer take an enforcement action against it, because it is statute barred, and if somebody seeks to carry out works to that structure, can they claim an exempted development benefit in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does the Minister wish to respond?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We had finished at amendment No. 55. It had been spoke to by both the proposer and the Minister. I suggest that the Minister address amendments Nos. 593 to 595, inclusive, 597, 599, 600 and 723, which are included in this group.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes. The amendments are grouped.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy McAuliffe is not present to speak on that. Would Deputy O'Callaghan or one of the members take the Chair while I speak to amendment No. 594?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: My amendment No. 594 refers to section 83, the heading of which is "Matters to which planning authority and Commission shall have regard". It lists out a number of items which it should have regard to in its decision-making but, at subsection (1)(a)(x), it says, "the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 and the duties and obligations imposed by that Act,". The Minister will be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. On that basis, I will withdraw amendment No. 594. While I am out of the Chair, is my amendment No. 596 in this group as well?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 597 is tiny. I think it might need a comma, an "of", a "by" or something in it. I will leave that one, if the Minister could have a look at that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. I will withdraw amendment No. 597 as well, on that basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: It can be discussed. When we get to amendment No. 593, the Deputy may wish to move it. I will mark it off as discussed. Amendments Nos. 595 and 597 have been discussed.