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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How is it calculated?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 84(6) provides that it "shall not require such an amount of financial resources to be committed for the purposes of compliance ... as would substantially deprive the person in whose favour the permission operates ... " How is that determined? I have a very specific question I am going to ask once I hear the answer to that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This issue was raised during private briefings with the officials on the earlier stages of the Bill. Section 86, particularly section 86(1), details the types and categories of developments for which a pre-application consultation can be secured. I had hoped that consideration would have been given in the Bill to a wider opportunity for more pre-planning, subject to available staffing and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I think I misunderstood the provision. Rather than a restriction setting out people who cannot apply for preplanning, this is talking about people who absolutely must have a prior preplanning application. It the other way around from what I had understood.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the clarification.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sections 88, 89 and subsequent sections deal with large-scale residential developments and I do not want to stop to discuss each section. I have a generic question. The legislation on such developments is relatively new. Does the Bill contain a literal transposition of this legislation or is there anything of significance that the Minister of State wants to bring to our attention? Is it a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 642: In page 211, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(5) Where an application made under this section is in the Irish language, correspondence from the planning authority to the applicant under subsection (4) shall be in the Irish language.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That seems absolutely sensible. In plain English, what exactly does the insertion of the text in parentheses do? I am reading the paragraph to make sure I am completely clear. Obviously, in the first of these amendments it relates to an application for retention. Therefore, it applies to the application for retention individually in and of itself, or "in combination with any plan or other...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not disputing it. I ask the Minister of State to explain it. I take it that "plan" means any existing plan like a development plan, local area plan or co-ordinated area plan and that "other project" means any other physical development that is taking place in the area.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Therefore, it is not just the retention application in and of itself - it is also that development in the context of plans and surrounding developments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is nice and clear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak in support of amendment No. 649 and make three more general points for the Minister and his officials to consider separate to the amendment, on which he has made his position clear. My own local authority area, South Dublin County Council, has a very good online system. It is not just good for applications. There is a really good online mapping system where I do not even have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to convince the Minister regarding the amendment. All I will say is that the delay is caused by two factors – the scanning of the documentation, as Deputy McAuliffe rightly outlined, and verification. There still an issue around delayed access to files and, as a result, there is a more limited time period for the public to engage. I hear what the Minister is saying...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 660: In page 216, to delete lines 14 to 20. This relates to section 96, entitled “Application for permission for development in material contravention of development plan or National Marine Planning Framework”, which states: and (b) in the case of development or proposed development referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the development or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 660 relates to section 96.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The origin of this amendment is the Irish Planning Institute, in one of its written submissions to the committee as part of its general concern over the role of the national planning policy statements, much of which we discussed when we dealt with those sections of the Bill, specifically making a case for the removal of section 96(2)(b). The logic of this is to try to keep a clear...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My concern is that the Minister is not dealing specifically with the argument I am putting to him. With respect, he is not dealing with the specific argument I am presenting, which is that this provision is a significant overstretch in permitting material contraventions of development plans. Let us keep in mind that these development plans have already been through what is now a rigorous...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is okay. I get that this stuff is tricky. However, to take the example of the cases brought Dublin City Council against An Bord Pleanála on grounds of material contraventions of plans, if this provision had been in place at that time, there would have been a very different outcome from the one reached under the existing provisions. That is what this is really about.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear, what the Minister is saying is in cases where the local authority itself is bringing forward a material contravention, that material contravention must be in line with the national planning policy statements. My understanding was this was with respect to consents by the commission. I may be incorrect and I am happy to stand corrected on that.