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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. O’Connell for that. Dr. Duffy will remember that we first met in one of these rooms, probably back in 2018 or 2019, when there was a previous attempt to reform our planning system. We were told at the time - including by his own organisation - that the changes they were advocating for should speed up large-scale residential developments and planning applications....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I refer to the significant increase in the number of judicial reviews in the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, and to the judicial reviews that were upheld by the courts. We cannot comment on any of those decisions. What went wrong in the architecture and legislation that the Oireachtas passed prior to that period? Are there learnings we would benefit from in order to ensure that we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask the question in another way. The vast majority of those judicial reviews were about substantive conflicts between central Government planning policy and ministerial regulations and development plans. They were planning matters, although they were challenged in the context of legal aspects. Given that, does PII see the proposed Bill rectifying those issues or does it see them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has that lack of alignment been the nub of the problem in terms of rising numbers of lost judicial reviews? Is that they key issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Spain is not suggesting the courts are unhelpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It needs houses to supply the wind to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: None of Mr. Farrell's members needs ten grand from a delayed planning permission. That is for sure. Mr. O'Connell's statement refers to "over 70,000 units waiting for a decision from An Bord Pleanála." Does he have a breakdown of the figure in terms of applications within the time limit awaiting decisions, applications that are late, applications that are not applications but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: My next question is for Mr. Spain, with his planner's hat on. I want to get into the meat of the Bill. I am interested in the question that he raised at the end of his last answer about how the overall rules of the system are live and development plans, strategic development zones and other plans keep pace. Section 22 of the Bill concerns the planning statements, which are going to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me give a real-case scenario though not an actual case. Let us say we have a large strategic development zone for many thousands of homes but there is a new government which puts in place a national planning policy statement. That then requires, if it is in the transitional arrangements as the Department says it will be, retrospective amendment of the SDZ. If the local authority in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And a material contravention that was rejected by the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I ask Mr. Spain this then? The bit where, I think, we all agree is that issue of certainty in all of the areas. On the one hand, we want certainty but if we then have annual reviews because the development process for large-scale residential developments is five years plus - if we are saying on the one hand we want longer plans and more concrete 3D plans but we are saying we want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Spain was not suggesting the courts are unhelpful in any of these matters. That would be further than we should go in any of these hearings. Mr. Spain used the word "unhelpful" in respect of court decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their detailed engagement, which is helpful for us in getting our heads around the provisions of the draft Bill. I have a couple of comments and will then put a general question about the draft Bill to all of the groups. I will also ask a specific question of WEI. It is important to put additional information on the record in respect, for example, of planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not being in any way adversarial but I am looking for changes to the Bill rather than general principles. Perhaps Mr. Spain has some in mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It should be an application of public law-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a way the legislation could make a distinction, not between the real case categories but certain types of error or procedures and certain matters of law? The question in my head is that third category. Ms Conaghan makes a compelling case for the first two. The third relates to a dispute, for example, on whether a mandatory ministerial guideline is legally superior to a strategic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yet we have to do so, including in the area of wind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I would appreciate that. I thank Ms Conaghan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Nagoya Protocol: Motion (19 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unfortunately, I am not on campus so I am not entitled to ask questions.