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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: As we have gone over our allotted time, I will suspend until 1 p.m., when we will return to briefly discuss section 55.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. We were about to agree section 55 before the break, but Deputy Ó Broin has a question seeking clarification on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will bring Deputy O'Callaghan in as he also has a question on this matter.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We have discussed section 49. We are on section 58 now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I tabled an amendment to that section and the Minister stated he would look at this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: The committee is open to inviting the board back in again for an update. We had a good session with them a couple months ago.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I would like to move on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments No. 513, 527 and 573 are related and may be discussed together. Amendments Nos. 513 and 573 in this grouping are in my name. I will move amendment No. 513 in order that we can speak to the grouping. Deputy O'Callaghan may then speak to amendment No. 527.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 513: In page 147, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(5) Where a planning authority or the Board is temporarily precluded from determining an application, subject to subsection (4), the statutory timeline for decision making shall be suspended for that period.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Have we completed the debate on amendment No. 527?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Section 62 deals with the issuance of a draft direction by the OPR. My amendment No. 513 relates to subsection (4). I am proposing that where subsection (4), particularly paragraph (b), kicks in, it would be beneficial for statutory timelines to be suspended for the duration of the process set out in the subsection.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. Amendment No. 573 relates to section 77(6), which states: For the purposes of [the preceding paragraphs], a modification shall be deemed to be minor where it is not likely to have significant effects on the environment or on any European site. I note the wording "deemed to be minor" and "not likely to have significant effects". My question is about who does the deeming...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am asking who would deem a modification to be minor. The wording used is "shall be deemed". I am not sure who would do the deeming and by what process that person would do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: If the Minister is to deem it minor, he or she will be relying on an assessment carried out by the Department.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I just want to be clear that will be done.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is grand. I thank the Minister. I withdraw the amendment based on his response.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 531 in the name of Deputy McAuliffe relates to a new section. It is related to a number of other amendments in the name of the Minister and Deputy McAuliffe. I ask the Deputy to move the amendment and speak to it, and we can then speak to those groups. Amendments Nos. 531, 632, 635 to 639, inclusive, 653, 656, 695, 697 to 701, inclusive, 705, 706 and 718 are related and may...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Thank you, Minister. I will move on now.