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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to existing energy infrastructure, whether it is seeking extension or repowering, these are just some of the questions that industry representatives have raised with us. There are issues around not only the cost of seeking to extend but also the timing of it, particularly if there are delays in the decision-making process. Will the Minister provide us with a little more detail...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A very quick-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My question is on the planning elements. Whether we are talking about an extension or repowering of an existing plant or a new plant, in order to give guidance to the planning authorities, is it the intention to provide regulations or national planning policy statements? This will be an evolving situation because of the nature of the technology. How does the Minister plan to give that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There are some ministerial amendments in that group that have not been spoken to yet. The Minister has withdrawn two but there are others.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one very quick question regarding that first one. Obviously, any new technology that might subsequently be inserted into the project has to be consistent with the terms of the original planning permission as granted.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That issue of the design envelop for which industry had made a case but, as far as I read it currently, is not in the Bill, does not overlap with this provision. This is just to allow the site works to carry on.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be 5.10 p.m.? I think people want the full hour.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If my answer determines whether the Cathaoirleach gives colleagues here the extra ten minutes then-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No. I have questions on section 68. There is no vote on section 67.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 392: In page 106, after line 39, to insert the following: “Obligation to prepare Cultural Development Strategy 47. A planning authority shall in consultation with An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the National Cultural Institutions, Fís Éireann, locally-based cultural institutions as well as local artists, arts workers, arts businesses and communities,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy for the Minister of State to go through-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about the cultural and mythological aspect?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it covered explicitly or implicitly? I apologise but I am not very familiar with that Act.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The same formula of words, therefore, is used in that Act as in these amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Battle sites are, but what about cultural and mythological interests?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to move on to the next part of the grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will wait to hear the Minister of State's responses, if that is okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: With respect to the Minister of State's response to amendments Nos. 401 and 402, if adding further complexity to the planning process was a reason to not put something in the Bill, very large sections of this Bill would not see the light of day given the very significant level of complexity they are adding to the system, whether one can say that is a good idea or not. I therefore just do not...