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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: I move amendment No. 729: In page 267, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Limitations on extension of duration of permission 136. (1) The duration of a permission shall not be extended under this Chapter (whether the extension is a material alteration or not) more than once. (2) Where the duration of a permission is extended under this Chapter, the period of the...

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

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 730: In page 267, line 15, to delete "and Part 5".

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

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 731: In page 267, to delete lines 21 to 23 and substitute the following: "(3) Where the deciding authority is the Commission, it shall notify the following of the alteration or extension: (a) where the permission relates primarily to land, the planning authority in whose functional area the development the subject of the permission altered or extended is situated...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Is it a question on the section?

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

Darragh O'Brien: I am happy to take it if the Deputy wants me to, as long as it is a reasonable question.

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

Darragh O'Brien: First, it is extremely rare. It is whatever is not covered by the provisions relating to a material alteration of a permission, which is covered in section 137. We discussed this a little yesterday or the day before. It could be a colour scheme or something similar that is not material to the development itself. It is that type of thing. It is very rare.

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

Darragh O'Brien: In this instance, a colour scheme might be a bad example. In the context of an extension, if the Deputy looks at page 264, he will see that a material alteration is one "that requires an appropriate assessment", "that requires an environmental impact assessment" or that falls under parts (c) or (d) of the definition, particularly part (d), which reads: (d) subject to subsection (2), that...

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

Darragh O'Brien: One, because it is non-material and, two, because it could be an instance whereby - as we discussed earlier - the development is completed but there may be some additional small works to be done. If one is effectively working on a site where the permission period has expired any works post that date are unauthorised if the permission period has expired. This provides the option to the local...

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

Darragh O'Brien: Because it is not material to-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: The extension of the permission is granted on the-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: We discussed that the extension period is up to that period. So you know-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the point and I understand why Deputy O'Callaghan is asking the question but I do not see that being the instance at all. If it was something that would take five years to do, it would all be material to the development itself. This extension of permission will be for very minor works. Any extension periods we talked about are up to that period.

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

Darragh O'Brien: If it is not material it has to grant it but what I am saying to the Deputy is that his question to me is-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: The authority does not have to give the five years. That is what I was trying to say.

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

Darragh O'Brien: It will give a period of time up to that. Five years is the maximum.

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

Darragh O'Brien: They do not get a default, "Here is five years to finish the painting".

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

Darragh O'Brien: They could get whatever.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

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

Darragh O'Brien: The time period is up to the planning authority to decide. Deputy Ó Snodaigh, for example, could come to me and say-----

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

Darragh O'Brien: But I could then say, "Sorry you are getting two months".