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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: There would be a phasing plan within them. I will not mention schemes the Deputy would know as well which are large schemes in the areas we represent. They would have phasing plans within them. They would have to have those to deliver X amount by 2025 and X amount by 2027. That would be detailed in the phasing plan but would all have to operate within the overall housing development plan....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This relates to section 166 on page 303. If a developer has planning permission, be it for ten years or five years, is building on the basis of permission for 1,000 houses for which the phasing and all that has been done, and if by the time that permission expires only 800 have been done, those 800 have been built under planning permission and are fine. However, and this is detailed under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I know the Deputy was not here yesterday as she had other things on. We dealt with section 165 in detail yesterday-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: To go through this, Deputy Ó Snodaigh's comments at the end helped me to answer the question I wanted to put even when Deputy Boyd Barrett was here. The completion is within the planning permission period. You have to build and operate within a planning permission period. If you start building and you have a five-year permission, the permission is for five years. It is not that you...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: For developments under ten units, it is not envisaged that there would be a phasing approach-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: -----for developments of that size. We dealt with that yesterday.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If I understand the Deputy, the default position would be set to three years for all permissions, under her amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Someone who goes back for an extension would not be restricted, but instead of five years it would be three years. The point is that would shorten that timeframe and the timeframe for permission for any application that goes to a local authority. That could involve a large commercial facility or a large housing development, or whatever the case may be. The Deputy's amendment sets the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Someone going back in for more time would not be restricted but I take it, if that person went back to request another period, the Deputy would probably want that to be three years.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I have already made the points on why I cannot accept that and why I do not think it is a good idea.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Totally. I completely and utterly agree with the Deputy. That is why it has been one of our focuses. We will not have a political discussion here but we could talk about all our various plans for housing and what we are doing. Unquestionably, vacancy is an area we are very focused on. It is something we want to see continued progress on, but that is for another discussion. I have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, I thought I answered that. That will sit with the planning authority. It is right and proper that the planning authority and the planning department in a local authority will be the ones who will make that decision. The Deputy is right that it is not specified, but it is for those authorities to determine the duration of the permission under section 164(3). Section 164(4) states: ...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I do not think it would not be appropriate to have critieria, to be honest.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That is what a plan is for.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The Deputy is suggesting we include a provision in the Bill for a developer who has 1,000 houses to be given ten years, for example, or similar for a shopping centre of more than X thousand square metres. Is that what he wants to put into the Bill? I do not think it is. With the passing of the Bill, planning departments will very clearly see where they can go further than the five years....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: That could be read together with section 164(2)(b). You could also look at every different scenario. If someone is coming in for a large project, be that residential, infrastructure or whatever it might be, they will know the timeframe within which it should be built. The completion of the work has to happen within the permission period. If someone thinks it is going to be ten years or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It could.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No, I am not. It allows for both.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: What is wrong with that?