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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it does. You basically have another week to make a determination on it. You will have been levied the fine.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: According to subsection (7), "A failure by the Commission, in making a decision ... in relation to an application, to comply with a time period specified in this section shall not invalidate the decision." Then there is a reference to "Where the Minister considers it necessary or expedient that decisions under" the relevant section. It has to make the decision within a week. It states that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Sorry, going back to that. On page 253, subsection (5)(c)(ii)(II) refers to “the period within which it will make that decision”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It has to, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: They will have to notify the Minister. That is what I was referring to with regard to the provision on the next page, which states: A failure by the Commission, in making a decision under section 121 in relation to an application, to comply with a time period specified ... shall not invalidate the decision. ... Where the Minister considers it necessary or expedient that decisions under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, and that is covered in subsection (8).

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it is new. Is it the only area where it is inserted? It is for each of the decisions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Going back to the discussion just before we had the sos, let us say a number of decisions were missed. We would be bringing in the OPR at that stage to look at the process and make recommendations on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, it would, in line with subsection (8). One can see it is quite-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 717: In page 256, line 34, to delete “referred to in this section as “the CRU” ” and substitute “in this section referred to as the “CRU” ”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, I did.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The explanatory memorandum might be helpful. On page 44, it states: This section sets out the additional procedures for the making of applications for retrospective consent under Chapter 4. Retrospective consent, as defined in section 79, is permission for retention granted in respect of development or part of development already carried out or being carried out in respect of which an EIA...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is substitute consent.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The first stage is to deal with the substitute consent piece. What follows thereafter is the retrospective consent or the development itself, the new development.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Under section 128(4), where an applicant for retrospective consent also-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Section 128(4) states that where an applicant for retrospective consent also applies for permission for development, the commission "shall not grant permission for that development unless it also grants the retrospective consent".