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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: It is done through a directive. The same effect applies. Ireland has agreed to it and it is implemented through directives.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: Correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: No. It is not affected by these planning proposals because the chief planner, the man on my right here, would not allow it. Am I right?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: That is fair enough. With regard to Deputy Catherine Murphy's comment, there is provision currently in section 180 of the Planning and Development Act to allow for estates to be taken in charge, section by section. We are going to try to strengthen that. The other Bill is currently going through Committee Stage and there would be an opportunity for Deputy Murphy to table her amendment in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: I know the point the Deputy is making and I understand it better following her second intervention. We will attempt to address it in the next Bill if that is acceptable.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: We will bring it forward and will run it by the Deputy to see what she thinks.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: There will be more discussion on later amendments today.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: We discussed them all, as it turned out.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: I wish to speak on a number of Government amendments that are related to section 4.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: Yes. I did not finish speaking on the amendments, as I wanted to address Deputy Ó Broin's amendment. However, there are a few more technical amendments we should address and I can run through them briefly. I refer to amendments Nos. 119, 120, 123 and 124. Amendment No. 119 is in essence a technical amendment correcting a reference in the new Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: That makes sense. We will wait our turn.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: Section 5 of the Bill provides that a developer shall - before submitting a planning application in respect of a strategic housing development to the board – make a request to the board to enter into pre-application consultations in respect of a proposed development. It further provides that before making a request to the board to enter into pre-application consultations in relation...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: I agree with the principle of what Deputy Eoin Ó Broin is trying to do. As I said, the local authorities will raise the issue in their conversations with An Bord Pleanála. To get it right, it might be better to leave it until the next planning Bill, the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016, is introduced. We are in agreement with the logic of the amendment. It would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 23:In page 8, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:“(4) The failure by a planning authority to comply with the requirement to hold a consultation meeting for the purposes of section 247 of the Act of 2000 by virtue of subsection (3) within the time limits provided for by that subsection shall not prevent the Board from proceeding under this section to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: The applicant might choose not to have it. We advise that he or she have one, but it might not take place within the timelines. A meeting does not necessarily have to take place.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: It is mainly to bring the Bill into line with the standard provision in planning law that one cannot question the end decision because it might have been one day late. It is in existing planning legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: No. It should have been included in it from the start. It is being included to avoid doubt. We are clarifying the position.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 29:In page 9, line 35, to delete “proposed house types and design” and substitute “proposed types of houses or student accommodation units, or both, as appropriate, and their design”.