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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 refer specifically to compliance with Article 6.1 of the Aarhus Convention on public participation. Something can have a significant environmental impact and not require an EIA or appropriate assessment. It would not be covered if our amendment is not accepted by the Minister, and therefore it would not be compliant with the Aarhus Convention. It would be useful if the Minister could...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Exempted development could, for example, apply to a farm building that may have significant run-off and that would not trigger an EIA or have an impact on a Natura 2000 or European site. It could cause significant pollution to local water courses. It could result in a lot of fish and other aquatic life being killed in the local water courses. That could have impacts on breeding and resting...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 54: In page 41, line 13, after “required” to insert the following: “or where the activity may have a significant impact on the environment”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There is an issue of notice here. I have made specific arrangements from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. because we discussed this yesterday and agreed the times yesterday. We had some flexibility around next week and all of the rest but I specifically made arrangements for between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. today based on what was agreed yesterday. I would not have made them if I had understood there was to be...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I only did this because of what we agreed yesterday.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I have specific commitments from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, for the whole two hours.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is it coming early?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: My reading of the amendment is that it is not arguing against development or suggesting that an area should be sterile or anything of the sort. It is just that development in these more sensitive areas would have to go through the planning process as is standard and would not be exempted development. There is a legitimate case for this. When dealing with the archaeological heritage Bill we...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 597 is Deputy Matthews's.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is the voting block.

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.