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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everyone to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We are recommence Committee Stage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. I welcome the Minister of State, Malcolm Noonan, and his officials to the committee. We were discussing amendments Nos. 105 to 118, inclusive, when we last adjourned. We had discussed as far as amendments Nos. 112 to 114,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I was just going to say I read a planning decision where a condition had been removed from the very issue the Deputy is referring to by the senior planner because they said this is catered for under the Roads Act, but then the An Bord Pleanála decision upheld the original decision. From my reading of that, it seems to be understood at both local authority and An Bord Pleanála level...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That was not my intention behind this amendment. I will explain the intention. This information comes into the Department on whatever process - it might be the national planning framework and I think I have something similar in on the policy statements as well. What I meant by the term “respond to” was, as with a development plan process, that the county or the chief...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to respond as quickly as possible as I do want to move on as we have spent a lot of time on this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Can I ask Deputy O'Callaghan or Deputy Ó Broin to take the Chair while I speak to the four amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I accept that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am quite happy to discuss them, as I am sure everybody is, but not in this forum because this is Committee Stage of the planning Bill. We are on amendment No. 130. I know the points that have been raised are relevant but I want to stick to the amendment. The Minister has responded. Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to come in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. That leaves us with amendment No. 689, which Deputy O'Callaghan has raised.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: While the Deputy does that, I will ask Deputy Ó Broin to speak to amendment No. 376.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Is Deputy O'Callaghan in a position to speak to amendment No. 689? Was he seeking a clarification on it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We now turn to amendment No. 131, which is in the name of Deputies Duffy and O'Callaghan. There is quite a large grouping of amendments in this. I ask Deputies Duffy or O'Callaghan if they wish to move amendment No. 131 and then speak to it. We can then follow some logic in the grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to make a new point on this. Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin also want to make points.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: As Chair, I would love to partake in this private conversation but I cannot. The Deputy has made his position very clear on it in terms of buildings-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Please do.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will now move on to amendments Nos. 142 and 143, which are closely related. I suggest we discuss them together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does anybody wish to respond? No. We shall move to amendment No. 420, which is solely in the name of Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. Call me out if I have skipped any. I am marking them as we speak to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes, please do.