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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: Perfect. With respect to the interaction of section 12(8)(b), which my amendments relate to, and subsection (d), is the Minister of State saying that in cases where the licence application has been granted or additional information has been provided, the planning authority can seek a further eight-week extension under the terms of subsection (d)?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the term "seek" mean that the applicant for the licence has to consent to that? Is it simply the local authority or planning authority providing themselves with an additional eight weeks?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That means, in real terms, there could be, under these provisions, a 16-week period from the date of application if, prior to the conclusion of the first eight-week period set out in section 12(8)(b), the planning authority could seek an additional eight weeks? Likewise, there could be a 12-week period under section 12(8)(b)(II) where, just before the four-week period expires, the planning...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Ultimately, there can be 16 weeks under subsection (8)(b)(I) when we add-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If I am the planning authority and, coming to the end of week eight, I notify the party of the extension, how much time am I given? Is it eight weeks on top of the original eight weeks, or is it less time?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: If I submit an application for a licence and there is an eight-week timeline, and if a decision is not made within eight weeks there is a default grant. However, if the Planning Authority on the second last day of the eight weeks notifies me that under exceptional circumstances it is applying subsection (8)(d), it gets a further eight weeks.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does that also apply to the four weeks for additional information? It applies in both cases.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. It is just in the first and not in the second.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the term "exceptional circumstances" set out in the Act or by way of regulation? What would be considered exceptional circumstances? Would not having sufficient staff to make an appropriate decision within eight weeks suffice? I presume there are regulations that govern this now, so it is not the case that new ones will have to be produced.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: There would be pretty wide latitude for a local authority to stipulate the exceptional circumstances.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is my point. I do not know when the section was originally inserted into the Planning and Development Act. I presume it was not in the original 2000 Act; it came in at a later stage on foot of EU directives. Our planning system is inherently more complex than it was then. Obviously, we are moving to a stage where there is a greater level of development. Our local authority planning...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The term "exceptional" is not set out anywhere. It is done on a case-by-case basis.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not set out anywhere. That is okay.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Was any consideration given to providing an additional period of time, post the four weeks, on receipt of additional information? Perhaps it would not be an additional eight weeks, but an additional four weeks. If not, why not?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Even if there were exceptional circumstances.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In all cases, without exception, that has to be part of planning permission.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the officials associated with the Climate Change Advisory Council who are considered designated public officials under the Regulation of Lobbying and Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 2023. [8711/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an analysis has been conducted of the volume of emissions reductions associated with each euro spent by the climate action fund. [8819/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy rationale within his Department’s cost-rental policies for corporation tax to be charged on LDA cost rents but not AHB cost rents. [8699/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (27 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether renewable electricity generated outside the State, and which was transmitted by means of a guarantee of origin certificate through the fuel mix disclosure process separate from the flow of electricity, is eligible for relief from the electricity tax. [8626/24]