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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank both organisations for coming in. I want to ask about satellite litigation and the potential around that. From what the witnesses have stated, it seems that there could be significant satellite litigation around costs, potentially correction of errors and compatibility with the Aarhus Convention and EU law, which relates to the other three areas. Is there anything else in the draft...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: When the witnesses say the satellite litigation could potentially lead to delays of one or two years, do they mean delays in a particular planning application that is under review in the courts or do they mean that within one to two years these issues will hopefully be resolved and there would not be much more satellite litigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Each substantial satellite litigation could lead to one or two years of delays across the board for a whole number of cases or planning applications

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: None of us has a crystal ball, but how long might it take to get these issues resolved, or get back to certainty or stability people say we now have in the system now post the Heather Hill case? How many years could we be looking at just to get back to where we are now in terms of stability and certainty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask Mr. Flynn to just give an indication if he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the issue of the administrative cost regime, we have not seen what that is so it is hard to give detail on it. The witnesses have said that it is not a proper replacement for a statutory right to costs. Can they expand on why it would not be? What are the potential deficiencies there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I apologise for missing part of this meeting. I was at another committee meeting. Comments have been made about the potential abuse of the section 5 process. Will the witnesses elaborate on this? What evidence is there of potential abuse?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have asked others and they have said they are infrequently used and there is not much of a resource issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: We have also been told some of these processes can be useful in getting certainty around things and can in the long term decrease workload and resource demands. When we talk of someone who has no interest in the land, is that basically someone who has no ownership of the land? I could have interest in something as someone in the local community or a neighbour, but if it is restricted in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The owner or someone with the explicit, written consent of the owner, absolutely, but not anyone else. It mentions prescribed bodies, I think.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Under this a neighbour cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: They are explicitly prohibited under this, which seems to me quite restrictive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Exempted development is an important part of the planning process and having clarity around and confidence in it is important. We may arrive at a point in the future where it is clearer what is an exempted development. It might be capable of being expanded and involve fewer resources in planning areas if there was clarity. Restricting the ability to have clarity on that can undermine...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the District Energy Steering Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will take action to ensure district energy customers are charged at residential rates, rather than the more expensive commercial rates they currently pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the CIÉ 1951 Pension Scheme, which has now met minimum funding standards and is solvent; if he plans to approve any amending statutory instruments for the scheme; if he will ask CIÉ to provide a report on outstanding information sought by the Committee of Trustees and the preliminary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her advice for parents whose children have been refused a school place in all of their local primary or secondary schools due to oversubscription; the options available to these parents and their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10491/23]