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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not seeking to have a discussion on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: On section 36(4)(i) and the power for the suspension, as I read it, the Office of the Planning Regulator is the body that would issue the suspension notification. It issues its draft direction, which relates to provision a particular provision, section or the entire plan. The regulator requests its suspension until such time as the process we have been discussing in respect of subsequence...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: But the power to request the suspension of the relevant provision of the plan comes from the OPR.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 293: In page 91, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(vi) board members of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge, the Minister responsible for the Gaeltacht, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any Language Planning Officers within the region.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the sake of clarity, will the Minister of State very clearly set out the types of decisions that amendments Nos. 666, 715, 747 and 753 relate to? Is it the case that the applicant, on the request of the relevant planning authority, can consent to an extended period for a decision?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again for the sake of clarity, will the Minister of State repeat exactly what type of consent each of the four amendments deal with?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that any decision by any planning authority?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister of State says section 110-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 98.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That relates to any decision of any planning authority.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 753.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Unless Deputy Cian O'Callaghan would like to come in first, I will ask some questions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two different sets of questions on this. With respect to the change in the timeline from two or three working days to five days across the three groups of amendments, other than giving the OPR a little more time to circulate, is there any other legal significance to the change in the timeline or is it just to give it an extra two or three days to circulate?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect then to the different formula of words in amendments Nos. 299, 523 and 578, instead of stipulating-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: And amendment No. 578. Instead of stipulating a number of days, the formulation "shall, as soon as practicable" is used.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I understood the Minister of State correctly, he indicated that this all relates to the compliance of the regional assembly with the direction. What does the phrase "as soon as practicable" mean? I presume the Minister of State is saying that three working days is too short. How is that determined and who decides it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, I am not making the case that it should be changed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is just for clarity. The issue here is----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to bear with me for a second. I know he is eager to answer the question I am asking, but he should at least let me ask it. When we talk about compliance, there are two aspects involved. One is that the spatial and economic strategy has to be physically altered. The text of it has to be altered and published. Compliance can also mean decisions arising out of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Just the alteration and publication of the text.