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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 104: To delete subsection (2) and substitute the following: “(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 5 of the Act of 2000, however such appeal be effected, the Act of 2000 shall continue to apply and have effect in relation to a request or appeal under that section made before such repeal, and any declaration made under Section 5 of the Act...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two additional points. I support Deputy Matthews. Most of us will have in our constituencies old telephone boxes that are no longer used as telephone boxes. Either the structure remains and it is very difficult to get it removed or we have seen a more recent phenomenon of the company that owns the structure not installing a new phone in it or sometimes removing the phones, but...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 112, 113 and 114 are on separate issues. I will deal with those.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the things that confused me about this section and took me a while to get my head round, particularly in relation to the discussion we had on a previous section on Environmental Protection Agency licences versus planning permissions, was the question of why we have these as licences rather than permissions. I am interested in finding that out. I can get my head around an exempted...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I understand that and I could read that part of the Bill myself. If this is related purely to cables, one might think that there is a licensing process for the laying of the cables. However, there are physical structures here. We have had conversations about some of those earlier. Why do we license those rather than grant them permission. What is the advantage of a licence versus a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Bus stops and bus shelters require planning permission.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There are structures. For example, when representatives of Bus Éireann and the National Transport Authority were before the committee they talked about a process whereby they had to apply for planning permission for bus stops on public roads. Why do we license some and grant planning permission for others?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a more streamlined process.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That makes some sense.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a second question. Can the Minister of State or his officials give an example of an exempted development that, because it is exempted, would not require a licence? I ask so that I am clear about the intent of the two amendments. What is that amendment intended to cover?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It was a planning permission exemption.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is why we have given the exemption.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The interesting thing about the bus stops is that the argument made was that there was such a volume of them that they should be exempted developments and it was not an unreasonable decision.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is where the location of existing bus stops is moved.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They would be also be covered under the exempted development regulations and are already in the list of exempted developments, so no licence would be required.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is to provide accessibility for disabled bus users.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: These amendments are in three groups. The first is amendments Nos. 112 and 113-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We will deal first with amendments Nos. 112 to 114, inclusive, because they relate to the same section. As I read it, section 12(8)(b) relates to an application for a licence and if a local or planning authority does not make a decision on the application within a set period of time, or if it does not make a decision within a set period after securing additional information, there is an...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Where is the Minister of State reading from?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On staffing, as the Minister of State will know, the CCMA said a year and half ago that more than 530 additional staff were needed. They have sanction for an extra 100 but I do not believe they have been employed and the workload is increasing. Staff numbers are way behind what they need to be. That is a separate matter. I want to get this right. Is the Minister of State saying there is...