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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: I do not know.

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

Steven Matthews: We will press on anyway. We have made a bit of progress. We will keep going. I ask Deputy Ó Broin to speak on amendment No. 55.

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

Steven Matthews: I am envisaging a case where it is beyond the statutory period for enforcement action and somebody seeks to carry out an exempted development. If it has been there for, say, ten years and the neighbour can no longer take an enforcement action against it, because it is statute barred, and if somebody seeks to carry out works to that structure, can they claim an exempted development benefit in...

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

Steven Matthews: Does the Minister wish to respond?

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

Steven Matthews: We had finished at amendment No. 55. It had been spoke to by both the proposer and the Minister. I suggest that the Minister address amendments Nos. 593 to 595, inclusive, 597, 599, 600 and 723, which are included in this group.

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

Steven Matthews: Yes. The amendments are grouped.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy McAuliffe is not present to speak on that. Would Deputy O'Callaghan or one of the members take the Chair while I speak to amendment No. 594?

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

Steven Matthews: My amendment No. 594 refers to section 83, the heading of which is "Matters to which planning authority and Commission shall have regard". It lists out a number of items which it should have regard to in its decision-making but, at subsection (1)(a)(x), it says, "the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 and the duties and obligations imposed by that Act,". The Minister will be...

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. On that basis, I will withdraw amendment No. 594. While I am out of the Chair, is my amendment No. 596 in this group as well?

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 597 is tiny. I think it might need a comma, an "of", a "by" or something in it. I will leave that one, if the Minister could have a look at that.

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. I will withdraw amendment No. 597 as well, on that basis.

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

Steven Matthews: It can be discussed. When we get to amendment No. 593, the Deputy may wish to move it. I will mark it off as discussed. Amendments Nos. 595 and 597 have been discussed.

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

Steven Matthews: We still have to deal with amendments Nos. 599 and 600, in the names of Deputy Ó Broin and his colleagues. The Minister may read his note on them and then we can revert to the Deputies. He may also refer to amendments Nos. 604, 605 and 723, if he wishes.

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

Steven Matthews: I have to interrupt the Deputy because a vote was called in the Dáil four minutes ago. We have four minutes to get to the Chamber.

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

Steven Matthews: We will suspend and return five minutes after the voting block ends, provided that is before 8 p.m. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Steven Matthews: We will start where we left off, with Deputy Ó Snodaigh discussing amendments Nos. 599 and 600.

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

Steven Matthews: I must ask the Deputy to move it along and allow the Minister to respond.

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

Steven Matthews: Can the Minister speak to his own amendments in this grouping as well, namely, Nos. 604, 605 and 723?

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

Steven Matthews: Is anybody indicating on amendments Nos. 604 or 605?

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

Steven Matthews: May I make a point?