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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 320 if it is related. They are grouped. I do not know.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We dealt with that this morning in the context of the development plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will stop at 2.55 p.m. and go into private session.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: For the next four minutes or so I will let the Minister go through the technical amendments. Members can underline the ones they wish to respond to and we will come back to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am not sure it is in this group.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Will we finish them then?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I have noted amendments Nos. 580 and 689 as ones we will come back to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. Before we deal with the other business, I wish to confirm we want to return to amendments Nos. 580 and 689.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will note these and come back to them because most are fairly straightforward. There was amendment No. 376 in Deputy Ó Broin's name.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. We discussed our meeting schedule last week and another meeting slot has become available. We will go into private session to discuss this housekeeping matter.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome back the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell. We will resume with the amendment No. 130 grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: That was not my intention behind this amendment. I will explain the intention. This information comes into the Department on whatever process - it might be the national planning framework and I think I have something similar in on the policy statements as well. What I meant by the term “respond to” was, as with a development plan process, that the county or the chief...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to respond as quickly as possible as I do want to move on as we have spent a lot of time on this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Can I ask Deputy O'Callaghan or Deputy Ó Broin to take the Chair while I speak to the four amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I accept that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am quite happy to discuss them, as I am sure everybody is, but not in this forum because this is Committee Stage of the planning Bill. We are on amendment No. 130. I know the points that have been raised are relevant but I want to stick to the amendment. The Minister has responded. Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to come in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. That leaves us with amendment No. 689, which Deputy O'Callaghan has raised.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: While the Deputy does that, I will ask Deputy Ó Broin to speak to amendment No. 376.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Is Deputy O'Callaghan in a position to speak to amendment No. 689? Was he seeking a clarification on it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We now turn to amendment No. 131, which is in the name of Deputies Duffy and O'Callaghan. There is quite a large grouping of amendments in this. I ask Deputies Duffy or O'Callaghan if they wish to move amendment No. 131 and then speak to it. We can then follow some logic in the grouping.