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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 63 in the names of Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan remains in this grouping. I also need to speak to my three amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I suggest that the Deputy do so and then he or Deputy O'Callaghan can take the Chair.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Does Deputy O'Callaghan wish to speak to this amendment?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Deputy McAuliffe will be withdrawing both because the Minister of State indicated he would consider the matter for Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 52 is to page 41. When we draft a Private Members’ Bill, most of us now realise that it is not likely to proceed right the way to the end and we are always looking for an opportunity to hook something from a Private Member’s Bill onto a Government Bill as it goes through the House. I have a Private Members’ Bill that has passed Second Stage and our...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Having spoken to people who work in enforcement, I envisage a scenario whereby there could be an unauthorised structure and it could be within the six-year period, or whatever it is, for a local authority to take enforcement on it, or it could have gone beyond that and it could still be an unauthorised structure, if someone is going to carry out works to that structure, those works should not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I will ask the Minister of State for clarification on a matter. To take Deputy Ó Broin's example of a strategic development zone, if an applicant submits something that reasonably complies with the objectives set out in respect of that zone, including the height and densities agreed with the local authority, that applicant will have a reasonably high and proper expectation that he or...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 48 to 52, inclusive, 54, 56 to 59, inclusive, and 62 and 63 are related and may be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I do not know whether Deputy Flaherty wishes to come in. He is online. The Minister of State has covered amendment No. 50. Does Deputy Ó Broin wish to come in on amendment No. 51?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister. May I ask someone to swap into the Chair while I speak to my three amendments?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I am thinking of a scenario where there is an unauthorised structure, perhaps to the back of a house or something else that required planning permission, but where that does not happen and the structure is unauthorised. If the owner carries out works to that structure and a neighbour puts in an enforcement action with the planning authority, the planning authority will then say it is an...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I think this arose previously in an enforcement case, where it was beyond the point of action------
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: That would be helpful. When I was drafting amendment No. 62, an alarm bell rang in my head regarding what a significant impact on the environment is and how that would be measured. I think the Minister also raised that point in response to Deputy O'Callaghan. We cannot have cases where we are aware of ongoing impacts to the environment but where the development does not meet the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 52: In page 41, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(f) development consisting of the change of use or partial change of use of any existing building where the height of the top storey is no more than 10 metres above ground level from any use other than residential to residential use and the works ancillary to any change of use,...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 55, 593 to 595, inclusive, 597, 599, 600, 604, 605 and 723 are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: We will come to that. I will give the Deputy a moment. Before we proceed we should invite the officials back into the committee room first. While committee members are present, our meeting schedule as agreed today was from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There was a two-hour break in between. I propose we take a one-hour break and meet from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. if members are...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Again, it is just about that flexibility of meeting times. If it is not agreed, it is not agreed and we will stick to the original arrangement.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: We could go until 5 p.m. and then just do---
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: We will still have four hours. We will suspend at 4 p.m. and come back at 6 p.m.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: The voting block may interfere with it also.