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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. There was a procedure whereby as part of that substitute consent application it was also possible to make a request for additional new development connected to the activity for which substitute consent was being applied for. At the time, we argued that those two things should not be allowed to happen. It was almost like a reward was being given for breaking the planning rules in the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Actually, when we were discussing this, one of the things we asked the officials at the time was why this would be done. They said one instance could be a case in which a quarry owner who had been illegally quarrying material wished to retrospectively regularise that but also to expand his quarrying activity. In fact, in that case, the new bit of development is not about fixing or cleaning...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. This is the whole point. I am trying to remember-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. The question to the Minister of State from Deputy Boyd Barrett was with respect to retention permission and if there is a time limit. The Minister of State had indicated, on the basis of the information from the officials, that no there is not. I am asking if that answer applies in the case of substitute consent, where a portion of it includes a new development.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: All I am saying, and I do not know if this situation is intentional or just emanating from the complexity of this Bill, is that I strongly urge the officials to look again at this aspect. I say this because if someone gets a grant - it could be for an additional development, a factory space or an outhouse - surely some time limit should be placed on it, like any planning application.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is that clear? The Minister of State seems to be getting two different bits of advice.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is within the substitute consent grant, because it is specific to its substitute consent.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final technical question relating to this. A lot of the discussion on the substitute consent legislation and a lot of the reasons for it related to Derrybrien and the very significant fines. To go back to the original definition of “unauthorised development”, are the officials absolutely clear that Derrybrien, as they understand it, would be captured by that...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have one more question, and I apologise for being so pedantic about this. The Minister of State indicated that the legal advice was that cases such as Derrybrien would be covered by the definition on page 36. Was specific legal advice sought as to whether Derrybrien itself would have been covered? This might seem a little abstract to the Minister of State, being new to it, but that was...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It was not, therefore, explicitly about whether it would have covered Derrybrien, but it would have been assumed to be part of the overall assessment of the legal advice.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister of State explain amendment No. 581?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a NEPS assessment will be made available to a person (details supplied). [6050/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 267 of 30 January 2024, the process through which parents can apply for an exemption for their child to remain in an early intervention class for a further year, due to being unable to secure a special school place, as this was not answered in the previous reply; and if she will make a statement on the...