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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What does it do?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that challenge legally, as in, in the courts?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 82 is about eligibility to make an application. It sets out who is entitled to make an application for permission. What is the intention? Why is the Government then attempting to restrict who could challenge their eligibility solely to a planning authority, the commission, the owner of the land or a person who has legal or beneficial interest in the land? I am not disputing it,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that is what the section states. My question is why the Government is seeking to restrict the right to legally challenge eligibility to only those four categories. There must be a logic to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the effect of this. However, the Minister of State is not explaining why the Government is doing this. This is a new provision. Clearly there is a reason a new provision has been inserted. Why does Government want to place this legal restriction here? There must be a reason for it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sorry, I do not understand. Has there been a case-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, or "(b) is a person (other than a mortgagee". It still does not answer the question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I am completely unclear on this. Subsection (3) seeks to restrict the rights of people to challenge in court the eligibility of an application solely to four categories. I do not understand why-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: A person who makes an application will not challenge their own eligibility.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The owner could challenge the eligibility. I am not disputing why the owner of the land should be allowed to do so. What I do not understand is why those are the only categories allowed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Of course not, because you are inserting a section here preventing them from doing so. If this section were not here-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a new provision. Therefore, today, there is no legal prohibition under planning law to prevent somebody else from challenging the eligibility. The Minister of State is inserting it. I am not arguing against it. However, I cannot form a view of it until I know why you are doing it. Has there been, for example, legal case history of other parties not included in these four...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 341: In page 101, line 28, after “area” to insert “safeguarding the use of Irish and viability of a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area, Gaeltacht Service Town or Irish Language Network”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 344: In page 101, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(e) the provision, or facilitation of the provision, of accessible cultural infrastructure within communities, including arts spaces for creating, performing, learning and enjoying a diverse range of art forms, Irish language facilities and night venues;”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 346: In page 102, line 5, after “centres” to insert “, including in terms of culture and nightlife”.