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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Go ahead. Then I will call Deputy O'Callaghan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does Deputy O'Callaghan wish to speak on these amendments?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Will the Minister comment on amendment No. 1106?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 1106 proposes to insert "The Chief Planning Commissioner may assign to suitably qualified Commission Inspectors, decision making powers, in relation to minor appeals".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: It was put in the context, for the Minister's consideration, whether, for minor appeals, it is necessary to have a core of three board members for good governance and oversight checking.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: It was just a provision to clear some of the work. If there were some minor extensions to houses, for example, does it need three board members?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. There are no more comments there. We will go back to the grouping of amendments. Amendment No. 1087 is not a hill I am prepared to die on but as somebody who has grown up and always had that respect for An Bord Pleanála as an independent arbiter, notwithstanding previous events that came to light, this was why my amendment proposed to keep the name "An Bord...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 1091 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 1104 and 1105 have been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 1137 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Good afternoon, everybody. You are very welcome back to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, where we continue Committee Stage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the committee to continue our deliberations on this important legislation. I just want to comment that yesterday evening, we lost a full hour...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan wishes to clarify something.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister and the members.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 797 to 812, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is very good. Let us move along then. I will put the question on the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will move on to a group of amendments that commences with amendment No. 891 in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett and others.