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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I will come in on amendment No. 604.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I will speak briefly on amendment No. 604. Perhaps a note will cover this, but the Minister is saying that emissions are a separate matter. Let us consider a planning application for something where emissions are central to the function of the proposal. Take the case of a wastewater treatment plant where the licence for the wastewater discharge is central to the function of that plant....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It would be great to get an answer to that now. If the wording is in the 2000 Act, have issues arisen around it? Have there been any problems that are leading to the removal of the wording? From issues in my constituency, I know that planning permission and the conditions around it for things such as wastewater treatment plants and licences for discharge have been important over the years,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The phrase used is not "shall have regard to". It shall have regard to the fact that these functions are vested in the EPA.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, I totally accept that. Are they being taken out? I know the Minister obtained the advice of the OPC on that, but it is hard to follow why it is the case. If paragraphs (e) and (f) are factually correct, they must have been included for a reason in the first place. I am trying to understand why they were included in the Bill-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: -----and why they are being taken out now. Based on what the Minister said, there is just as much of a case to have them in the Bill as there is to remove them. He is stating that this is factual information.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: At this stage, we do not know if it is in the 2000 Act.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister can include that in the note.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: At what time will we finish?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: How is the Minister fixed?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: My concern about this relates to circumstances in which the population targets are updated, which the Department is in the process of doing. If the extra capacity, the headroom, is used up and permissions granted are activated, we could be in a scenario where capacity is maxed out and the local authority cannot refuse permission. The Minister is saying local authorities can definitely...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Would a different way of dealing with it be to make sure the headroom is sufficient, if we feel it is insufficient, and to ensure there is a way of increasing the headroom based on non-activated permissions? Would that be a different way of trying to achieve the same result in this?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister is saying that for a local authority or a planning authority to refuse permission on the grounds of lack of infrastructure is a valid reason for refusal. Is he saying that a planning authority to refuse planning permission on the grounds that the housing growth target has been met is not a valid reason for refusal?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, a housing supply target.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: There are some areas where there is a lot of development-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely - and where the permissions are built out.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I am just thinking, without naming areas, of the northern end of my constituency. There is a very significant amount of permissions there that have been built out over the years and the remaining ones are being built out now. It is not always the case in areas that permissions are not getting built out. For any further applications in an area like that where there has been a huge amount of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: There are refusals that have taken place that the Minister is concerned about and that is why this amendment is-----