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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: Deputy Boyd Barrett wishes to make a new point on this. Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin also want to make points.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: As Chair, I would love to partake in this private conversation but I cannot. The Deputy has made his position very clear on it in terms of buildings-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Please do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: We will now move on to amendments Nos. 142 and 143, which are closely related. I suggest we discuss them together.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Does anybody wish to respond? No. We shall move to amendment No. 420, which is solely in the name of Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. Call me out if I have skipped any. I am marking them as we speak to them.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Yes, please do.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment Nos. 420 and 893 are related.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: It is amendment No. 420 and Deputy Ó Broin's amendment No. 893. Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 596 is closely related.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Can I confirm with Deputy Ó Broin that he spoke to amendment Nos. 612 and 613? I did not tick them off. Did he mention them?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I missed knocking those off. Next is amendment No. 614 from Deputy McAuliffe and then I will speak to my amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Excuse me, Deputy Duffy. Has he spoken to amendment No. 614?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: The only remaining amendments I see are in my name or the name of Deputy McAuliffe. I might go down and cover them, although we had a lengthy conversation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Let me get settled down there and I will try to go through them one by one. Will somebody please take the Chair? It would be very helpful.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I will not delve into it too much because we covered a lot of it in detail.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: It is great to be able to sit down and talk to this because I was dying to get involved in that conversation. Going back to the IPCC report, all of the reporting on climate is that we need an immediate, rapid and concerted effort from all angles to address climate, without a shadow of a doubt. It is the reason I am here - we need to address climate. When I hear things like, "We will do...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I am dealing with amendments Nos. 601 and 602.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I suggest the reference to the climate Act in section 83(1)(a)(x) and (b)(x) be removed. The reason I suggest deleting it is because the introductory headline to the section again has this thing about having regard. I had two amendments, one of which was to change that language to strengthen it so that we do not just have regard to the climate Act but that we be consistent with the climate...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: If we have "consistent" with the climate Act, I am happy to leave that in, but because it says "regard"-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 634 relates to page 205 of the Bill. This concerns pre-application consultation on large-scale residential development, LRD. Section 87(8)(c) reads a planning authority "may advise the prospective applicant of the considerations related ... to the environment". It is all about that discussion we had earlier. If we were to add "greenhouse gas emissions" to that, the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: No, I am speaking about the climate-----