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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. Does the Minister of State wish to read a response to amendment No. 907? I will suspend proceedings when he has done so.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: We can cover amendments Nos. 907 and 909.
- 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 of State. I will now suspend proceedings, as we have reached the time for doing so. I have to give people the chance to take a break and have dinner. We will be back here at 6 p.m. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance and engagement today.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins. We are discussing the group of amendments starting with No. 891. Deputy O'Callaghan wishes to respond to the previous contribution on amendment No. 909 by the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan.
- 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 of State.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I think we gave them good airing under various sections.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Deputy Boyd Barrett wanted his grouping of Nos. 913 to 917, inclusive, to be addressed. If the Minister of State wishes like to read the note on amendment Nos. 914, 916 and 917, he may do so.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin will speak to amendments Nos. 902 and 904. Deputy Duffy is withdrawing his amendments Nos. 902 and 904 but they are similar to Deputy Ó Broin's.
- 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 of State. We had a good long discussion about this on a previous section as well. We covered a lot of that. Is amendment No. 906, in the name of Deputy O'Callaghan, a standalone amendment?
- 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 of State. Deputy Ó Broin does want to come in on this point as well, but does Deputy O'Callaghan want to contribute further?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: We are speaking now on amendment No. 919. We jumped ahead.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I know. The Deputy only has two amendments left in the group, amendments Nos. 910 and 919. Does he want to deal with amendment No. 919 first?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: The Deputy was wondering about the rationale for the hectare.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Okay. Deputy Ó Broin wants to come in.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 910 is Deputy O'Callaghan's last amendment in this grouping and we have completed that grouping so would he like to go ahead on that amendment? I am conscious we will have the voting block in the Dáil a little earlier than expected and it will be right in the middle of this debate. We need to make a decision as to whether we will return to the meeting after the voting block.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: The last amendment in this grouping is amendment No. 1053 in my name. I seek clarification because I do not think I have quite understood this section. I ask the Minister of State to read the note on it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: That is section 374(2), is it not? The amendment proposed to add a new subsection. The sale or lease of land to a community-led housing body would not need the permission of the Minister in this case because the local authority could dispose of it. Is that covered?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I think the section is about the disposal of land below market value. Is that not what section 374 covers? If a local authority were to do that, there are certain conditions where the Minister must give consent to do that. For community land, does that have to be done for an approved housing body?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Would it need the consent of the Minister?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: That would also apply to community-led housing as we have covered earlier. Okay, that is fine.