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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: We now come to amendment No. 893 in the names of Deputies Duffy, Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. I think Deputy Duffy wished to withdraw this amendment, so it is only in the names of Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 896 is in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett. There is nobody to move the amendment so it falls.

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 Ossian Smyth. We were on amendment No. 909, on which a division had been requested.

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

Steven Matthews: Yes. I ask all members to remain.

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

Steven Matthews: We are moving on to the next grouping. There are a number of amendments in this grouping, beginning with amendments Nos. 923 and 924 in my name. I will not move them as I understand what they mean now.

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

Steven Matthews: I did not move amendment No. 924 but I ask the Minister of State to read the response to it, if possible.

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

Steven Matthews: I accept that. 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: Amendment No. 927, in my name, is also in this grouping. I will not be pursuing the amendment. The next amendments in the grouping are amendments Nos. 930 and 931, in the name of Deputy Ó Broin.

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

Steven Matthews: I suggest skipping over amendments Nos. 933 to 939, in this grouping, as they are in my name and I would have to leave the Chair to discuss them. Will the Minister of State read the response to amendment No. 940 because the Labour Party representatives might want to hear what he has to say?

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

Steven Matthews: I am not sure whether amendments Nos. 941 and 945 are related. They are both in Deputy Ó Broin's name. Amendment No. 945 is also in the name of Deputy O'Callaghan and others.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 941 is solely in-----

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

Steven Matthews: I tabled a Topical Issue on rights of way last night. It is for the planning authority to put rights of way in the development plan, but not to determine what is a right of way.

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

Steven Matthews: No, I did not get that response. It is my reading of it.

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

Steven Matthews: I do not believe it is up to a local authority to designate a public right of way.

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

Steven Matthews: Just for clarity, the reason I referred to apartments in my amendment was because I wanted to clarify that. I remember having this discussion on previous legislation where I asked if apartments were covered by "houses" and that definition was given to me. I put it in as a clarification on the record.

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

Steven Matthews: I would like you to be brief-----

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

Steven Matthews: Okay. We discussed it. Does Deputy O’Callaghan want to take amendments Nos. 910 and 919?

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 898 is in my name. I withdraw it based on the clarification.

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

Steven Matthews: It is on landscape conservation areas.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan also has a question on this.