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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of questions on this section. I would like clarification on two very minor points. I assume these are transitional arrangements to deal with that period. It would be helpful if, for the record, the Minister of State could outline what sections 261 and 261A of the 2000 Act do that this transitional mechanism relates to. It would be valuable to have that on the record. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Section 14 of the Bill states: The repeal of section 261 of the Act of 2000 shall not have effect for the purpose of any notice issued under that section at any time before such repeal. What is it that someone is doing up until the point of repeal that he or she can continue to do? I am asking so that we can be clear on it. What happens post repeal? Is that dealt with in some other...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is saying the section means that this repeal will not in any way invalidate any enforcement proceedings currently under way.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When sections 261 and 261A are repealed, what will replace them? I assume there is a provision somewhere else in the Act or in the Minister of State's amendments to replace them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, take your time. There is no rush.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have dealt with retrospective consent and enforcement comes later on. Whatever was captured by sections 261 and 261A of the 2000 Act will be captured by either the retrospective consent or enforcement sections of this Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is fine. I just wished to clarify.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before I speak to amendments Nos. 120 and 160, will the Minister of State repeat the list of the amendments he intends to withdraw?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Bear with me. Just so I can-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When I read the definition, and I appreciate it is from the CSO, it seemed pretty arbitrary in terms of a BUA. It just seemed to involve gathering together a number of smaller areas. Is the Minister of State in a position to clarify why the CSO uses that definition? I appreciate that the Department wants to use the same definition, given that the census is the data that will inform NPFs...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy O'Callaghan's final question is important namely, what is the advantage or purpose of having this definition? What do we get from it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not the same as towns, villages or key towns. Clearly, there is a reason why there is a separate designation of a BUA rather than a town. I am not objecting to it. It is more to understand what is proposed because it is new.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will let the Minister of State finish his response and then I will come in with my related question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is this then for the purposes of not just calculating the underlying targets of the NPF - because they are done through housing needs demand assessment - but also for situations where planning authorities can, at a granular level, make decisions in respect of whether areas are built up? I am trying to work out the functionality of this definition.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. That clarifies it for me. Turning to amendment No. 160, to be clear, I have an amendment to the same sentence. My original concern with the review of the national planning framework and the two-year period the Government is amending is that it could be up to two years after a census has been conducted before the new census data could be worked into an NPF. What is the import of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the amendment says "publication", to what is that referring? As the Minister of State knows, when a census is carried out, there is first the preliminary report, which is followed by the various other reports. Which publication is it referring to?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the Minister of State refers to the "second occurrence", will he put that in plain English, please? Is that the second census?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For clarity’s sake, let us use the example of the 2016 census. The Government agreed the current NPF in 2018. A big debate we had in 2019, 2020 and 2021 related to whether the underlying population growth projection data and headroom growth data from the 2016 census were out of date by the time the 2018 national planning framework was being agreed. Is the Minister of State saying in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no rush. This is an important part of the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will really be 12 years because it will be the ten years of the two census cycles plus the two years it is going to take to publish the final results. That is why it is currently 2024, given there is an assumption it will take two years. What the Minister of State is really saying with his amendments, therefore, is that there will be a review every 12 years. Is that not correct?