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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: I concur with Deputy O’Callaghan. Here is the problem, however. The development I am speaking about in my own constituency is post 2013. In fact, the planning permission was after 2013. I cannot remember the number of years the residents have been there, but they have certainly been there for two, three or maybe four years and they moved in within the five-year time period for the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Where a developer operates individual designated activities companies for each individual development, which is common if not the norm, and a company then fails, there is nobody to pursue in the context of planning enforcement. As site works are not covered by the building control amendment regulations, it is even more difficult. Ultimately, we are talking about court action. They are the...

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. 612: In page 198, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “(m) conditions requiring to measure and address whole life carbon emissions and address whole life carbon emissions of new developments in line with the States carbon targets;”.

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. 613: In page 198, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: “(m) conditions requiring the development to have regard to the ratio of infrastructure to buildings and homes to ensure a more efficient use of infrastructure and associated emissions;”.

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. 619: In page 199, line 13, after “development” to insert “, including requiring naming to be in the Irish language only, or in the case of bilingual naming, for the Irish name to be more prominent in signage”.

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. 623: In page 199, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(u) where the development includes the construction of not less than 2 housing units in a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area or Irish Language Network, conditions to protect and promote the use of Irish within the community and the viability of Irish as the spoken language of the community,...

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. 624: In page 199, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(u) conditions requiring space within the development for culture, including artistic creation, performance, learning or enjoyment, accessible to the public, including persons with a disability.”

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have four specific questions. I will go through them and we can deal with them one by one. Section 84(6) provides that: A condition attached to a permission in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (5) shall not require such an amount of financial resources to be committed for the purposes of compliance with the condition as would substantially deprive the person in whose favour...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The next question then is on section 84(9)(a), which states: A planning authority or the Commission may, in addition to any condition that it may or is required to attach to a permission in accordance with any other provision of this section, attach to that permission a condition that the person who carries out the development agree points of detail relating to compliance with the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The questions are on sections 84(6), 84(9), 84(10) and 84(13).

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

Eoin Ó Broin: First of all, is it new?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The second question then is whether it applies to both schemes and one-off developments, for example, residential schemes and one-off houses?

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.”.