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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that basis, I am happy to withdraw amendment No. 98, but may come back to it depending on the revised text from the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support the amendment. It is one of the issues I raised when we were dealing with the general strategic housing development legislation last year. One issue I have is that there are good local authorities that try to expedite the meetings for pre-planning as quickly as possible. One of the complaints they often have is that the information they receive from the applicant comes very...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but not the day before. For example, when I sat on South Dublin County Council, a developer would look for pre-planning and the council would be willing to get it done quickly. It would set a date but the documentation would only come in the day before the meeting. That would not allow the relevant officials time to properly examine it. I think it could help. However, I fully...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 90:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: “PART 5 FURTHER MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTSAmendments to Part 1 of Act of 2000 16. The Act of 2000 is amended by inserting the following into the Table to section 1A—“DIRECTIVE 2011/92/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope "Callan's Kicks" was not listening to that because he would have a field day with it next Saturday. I thank the Minister for the detailed response and I will come back to some of that on Report Stage rather than trying to rush through it in the few minutes we have left. I will press a few amendments and withdraw a few others

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can I have my support recorded? Is that appropriate?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendments to Screening for environmental impact assessment 16. The Act of 2000 is amended—(a) in section 176A(3) by substituting the following for paragraph (e):"(e) any such other information as is required under Directive 2011/92/EU as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU where such information shall be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can my support be recorded?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 95:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 42 16. (1) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by substituting "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority shall" for "On application to it in that behalf a planning authority may". (2) Section 42 of the Act of 2000 is amended in subsection (1) by inserting...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 97:In page 48, after line 37, to insert the following: "Amendment to section 7(1)(a), and consequential amendment to sections 7(2), 7(3) and section 22. 16. (1) Section 7(1)(a) of the Act of 2016 is amended by inserting the following after subparagraph (ii)—"(iii) any determination under this part shall be made in accordance with sections 176B and 176C, and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a question for the Minister. Is there a timeline or date for transposition of the 2014 environmental impact assessment directive? It will not be transposed by 16 May 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for the three presentations. By way of introduction, with these two hearings and the report that will arise from them we are hoping to not so much focus on the past but to try to come up with what we, as a committee, think are sensible recommendations to Government for both legislative and policy change. While we are conscious of the high profile cases that have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am thankful for all the responses, which were very helpful. It is interesting because we discussed many of the same issues at our previous meeting and many of the same kinds of solutions seem to be emerging, which is really helpful. These will be half-questions and half-observations. It seems the witnesses are all moving towards the idea that one way of removing self-certification, as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms. Neary for her presentation. Our questions to her will be slightly different from those that we put to the other witnesses. A lot of our attention is focused on potential future policy and legislative change, which we are not going to try to pin the Department down on today. That said, I have quite a lot of questions for Ms. Neary. One of the reasons we are dealing with this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Neary know how many of those are in the building control area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that a reflection of the very small number of new builds or is it that it is very good at its job, or is it a mixture of both?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Building Regulations, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

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