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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: It would be good - it does not have to be today - if the Minister of State could confirm which local authorities are in that position. The only reason I say this is that elected members and councillors from those administrative areas-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason I ask is that it would be very important to a Deputy or a councillor from one of those local authority areas to know that the local area plan, in all likelihood, is simply going to fall and is not likely to be replaced by any of the new plans. Those sections of the Bill will have to be enacted and those plans will have to be produced. It is not likely that a replacement plan...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. My apologies to the Minister of State but my point is a separate one. There has been great anticipation for these transitional mechanisms, both in the House and more generally, because people want to know how they are going to operate. It is important that we take time to go through this so that people are clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Even if that ambitious-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The point I wish to make is an important one for the Minister of State to understand. Even if that ambitious enactment deadline-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to let me make my point because it is important. The development plans in a number of local authorities have not yet completed a review, or have gone into the review process.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They have local area plans.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Notwithstanding that the new types of plans may be enacted next year, the creation of those new plans is likely to take some time. It may or may not be prioritised by the management or the officials. It would be good if the Department could provide this committee with a list of the relevant local authorities and relevant local area plans which are potentially likely to fall unless the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Until the development plan changes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State has made that very clear, 100%.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. My point still stands, however. If the local area plan of the Minister of State’s party colleagues and my party colleagues in Sligo is at risk of collapsing because of a lack of alignment between the transitional mechanisms, the enactment of the new sections and the production of a new plan, they would like to know that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is very clear. I have a couple of specific questions but I-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The only reason this is important is that a local community or local representatives could have put a great deal of effort into the local area plan. Their new development plan might conclude within six or 12 months and, therefore, there is a-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I would like the Minister of State to explain a few of the individual mechanisms and I might have questions. Perhaps we can go through them one by one. There is not a large number of them. Amendment No. 61 deals with exempted developments. Will the Minister of State clarify this please?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not understand, apologies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: If they have not commenced they will fall under the new Act. Perfect.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Correct me if I am wrong but this is with respect to section 12 of the Bill in front of us, which deals with licensing appliances and cables.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Does this mean if I have applied for a licence for an exempted development under the existing provisions but I do not commence it when the existing provisions are being repealed, I then have to wait until the new provisions of the new Act are enacted before I can then reapply for a licence and proceed?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: To commence.