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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are going to finish at 5 p.m. Perhaps we can cover them off. I do not know if we will get to vote on this amendment, No. 2.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: There are multiple names attached to that amendment. Whoever wants to speak to it may do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan raised the issue with amendment No. 188. Is he okay with that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 529 is in multiple names and all Deputies are present. I will ask those Deputies to speak about amendment No. 529 and the Minister of State may speak about amendment No. 500, although Deputy Cowen is not here to speak to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I was going to ask the Minister to respond on amendment No. 500 and then put the question on amendment No. 2. We will then come back to amendment No. 3 after a break.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Are they on amendment No. 188 or on others?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: They are on the amendments to section 66. Then we will adjourn now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Whoever is here can respond on amendment No. 500.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes. We will suspend and return at 6.09 p.m., which gives everybody an hour for a cup of tea and something to eat.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan. We will continue the Committee Stage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. We were on section 2, amendment No. 2 as part of a grouping. We were discussing amendment No. 188 in that grouping and Deputy Cian O'Callaghan wished to come in on that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: It will be a long time before we get to vote on amendment No. 188.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I refer to clarification on the reserved function aspect. Was Deputy Ó Broin asking about that or did he get clarification?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Can the Minister of State come back with that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to respond on amendment No. 500. We have not touched on it yet. It is in the name of Deputy Cowen. We need to discuss it because it is in this grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: If there is nobody to move amendment No. 500 when we get to it, then it would fall. It is grouped here for discussion.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask for clarification on, I think, amendment No. 932. It is the one that refers to special amenity area orders. I think this has been answered. If an order was made under the previous section 202, that order remains valid. If that order has not been enacted by a local authority, it still remains valid, I presume, and transitions across with amendment No. 932.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: A ministerial order for a special area of amenity is not time-bound; it continues until it is enacted. I just wanted to clarify that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23, 128, 177 to 179, inclusive, 1089, 1090, 1095, 1099, 1100, 1122 to 1125, inclusive, and 1136 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Go raibh maith agat. The amendment is withdrawn, with the right to reintroduce on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will continue. The Minister of State has a number of amendments grouped in this section. We will take them all together. Deputies have other amendments in this grouping too.