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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will make a couple of brief remarks before we get into the detail of the Bill. I thank the Minister's officials for their work throughout this process, last year and this year. They have been enormously helpful in their private and public briefings and in providing additional information. I know it continues to be a considerable amount of work for them. I wish to put on the record my...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Am I correct in saying there is a technical amendment to section 1 in the latter stages of the Bill? I am a bit confused as to why that amendment is at the end and is not being dealt with first. Perhaps someone could explain that to me. I apologise.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is okay. I presume we can return to that on Report Stage if any issues arise when we come to discuss the rationale for that change. I will just put that on the record.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: First, I strongly support Deputy O'Callaghan's three amendments. It is an issue that is going to come up regularly. Obviously, there was a very comprehensive review of the Planning and Development Act 2000 and all its subsequent changes. There were certain areas that many of us were hopeful would be addressed. One is the issue of Travellers and the expert group on Traveller...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The difficulty is on the one hand the Minister is saying this Bill is not the right place to address this issue, but he is also saying it is not his intention to formally initiate a review of Part M.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister mind my asking whether it is his intention to initiate a formal review of Part M? That is what those groups have asked him to do.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To continue the point I was going to make, on the one hand the Minister is saying this Bill is not the appropriate place to do it. On the other he is saying it should be a change to building control, but he has yet to decide whether he is going to initiate that review. If he were to initiate it, they typically take at least a year and that would only then start to work into the next cycle...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even weaker.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very helpful. Given that the new Part 23 is very significant, could we ask some questions on that first before we get into the other transitional mechanisms?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: My apologies.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. That is brilliant.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It will take a bit of time to work out the best way to process some of this material. My remarks are in no way a criticism. We are talking about a series of very important transitional mechanisms. I appreciate that the Minister of State had to read out a statement but I am still very unclear as to how some of the mechanisms are going to work. I have a couple of general questions on the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This leads to a question I asked at the start. I will ask it in the context of these provisions also. Upon the passage of the Bill, the Act of 2000 is repealed, but until the enactment of the relevant new sections of the Bill-----