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

Cian O'Callaghan: Would a different way of dealing with it be to make sure the headroom is sufficient, if we feel it is insufficient, and to ensure there is a way of increasing the headroom based on non-activated permissions? Would that be a different way of trying to achieve the same result in this?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister is saying that for a local authority or a planning authority to refuse permission on the grounds of lack of infrastructure is a valid reason for refusal. Is he saying that a planning authority to refuse planning permission on the grounds that the housing growth target has been met is not a valid reason for refusal?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, a housing supply target.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There are some areas where there is a lot of development-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely - and where the permissions are built out.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I am just thinking, without naming areas, of the northern end of my constituency. There is a very significant amount of permissions there that have been built out over the years and the remaining ones are being built out now. It is not always the case in areas that permissions are not getting built out. For any further applications in an area like that where there has been a huge amount of...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: There are refusals that have taken place that the Minister is concerned about and that is why this amendment is-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I too want to know why the Minister is proposing the word "expedient" here, given its definition include actions and behaviours that are immoral and improper. Why is that appropriate language to be putting in a planning Bill, given how seriously we all take planning? This section centralises control with the Minister. It gives him or her particular powers. I am very concerned at the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: As this is the first major planning Bill in 25 years, we should try to improve the legislation and, therefore, language having been used in the past is not necessarily a justification for our continuing to use it. "Expedient" includes possibly improper or immoral acts, so I want a justification from the Minister of State as to why he thinks it is appropriate to put in legislation these sorts...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the Minister of State's response, what are the checks and balances? I cited that most of the checks and balances for these regulations are not only not present, but have been taken out by the Bill. The checks and balances for these regulations previously meant Oireachtas approval by a resolution. That safeguard is being removed for nearly all the regulations. What are these checks and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 45. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [5297/24]