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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: That is what Kieran said when we were asking him the last time.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: A hundred per cent.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Just so we have absolute clarity, subsection 98(4) is the procedure whereby the planning authority can ask the applicant for some extra time and the applicant can agree or not. That is new. That does not exist currently.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: For the Minister's benefit, the conversation we had previously was that there was an earlier formulation and it indicated that the applicant could provide an extension but there was lack of clarity as to whether the planning authority could request it. Kieran O'Donnell gave an undertaking to come back to the committee with a note clarifying exactly what is currently there and exactly what is...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: This is quite important to clarify.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely.

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. 671: In page 220, to delete lines 40 and 41, and in page 221, to delete lines 1 to 12.

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. 672: In page 221, to delete lines 21 and 22.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to establish what, if anything, is new in this section.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: For the sake of clarity, can the Minister of State outline whether section 50 is a direct transposition from the existing Act or whether any new elements are introduced here?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On the last point, which is probably the most important bit of what the Minister of State said, I ask him to explain in practical terms what that means for the development plan process. Is it that zoning will now happen at the settlement level? What will be the relationship between those settlements and larger zoning patterns?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a final question. In the most recent round of development plans, for example, when we were doing ours in South Dublin, a settlement strategy was agreed between the local authority and the Department prior to the development plan process beginning. Is this in some sense to formalise some of that and set down in primary legislation what that settlement plan and core settlement strategy...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Perfect.