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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1139: In page 634, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(d) becomes a member of the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 956: In page 441, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Costs in environmental matters 250. (1) This section applies to proceedings of the following kinds: (a) proceedings in the High Court by way of judicial review, or of seeking leave to apply for judicial review, of— (i) any decision or purported decision made or purportedly...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If it is possible to share that with the committee, it would be great.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1144: In page 648, line 25, after “fees” to insert “on a full cost recovery basis”. This is my final amendment and is the last chance for the Minister to be generous in this eight-week long saga.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Probably better to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: If you think about it, we have been in the basement for approximately 120 hours. There have been more than 1,000 amendments and 500 sections. Like the Minister and Chair, I want to first thank all the secretariat and Oireachtas staff. I thank the ushers who carried the Minister’s boxes in and out of the rooms outside, the broadcast staff, the transcription staff and the Bills Office...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions on the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions. The first is about section 169(2). It is a broad set of regulatory provisions. Is that just a crossover from the existing legislation or is there anything new there? With respect to 169(2)(i) and (ii), it is interesting that it talks about providing for the waiving or reduction of a fee to which subparagraph (i) refers-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It is at the very top of page 309. It talks about waiving or reducing fees. We had a very interesting discussion yesterday, particularly about waivers.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that could be used in the context of waivers to ensure people on lower incomes, for example, would be able to participate and there would not be a bar. Is it for some other kind of waiver? Will the Minister just explain it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are any waivers currently in place or is it just a provision that has been there before?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: More specifically, section 169(2) is a list of all the various areas where regulations can be introduced in relation to the previous section. Is there anything specifically new in here?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It looks like it is all a carryover.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the legislation. There seems to be very little change, if any, in this section and Part of the Bill compared with what was there previously. If I am wrong, I ask the Minister of State to correct me, but it seems to be broadly a transposition. I am speaking specifically to amendment No. 895 but this is also supportive of the points Deputy O'Callaghan has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am reading the definition of "house" on page 30 to try to cast my mind back. I will go back to my principal point and then follow up on Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 897. I apologise for forcing the Minister of State to repeat himself a bit but I want to emphasise the point around the HNDA because this is a really significant thing. Section 219(4)(a) states that a housing strategy...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am speaking to my amendment and I have a right to do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am the only sponsor of this amendment. It is not co-sponsored. I have spoken to it once. I will speak to it a second time and then I-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We can have a row if you want-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Then you are wasting the committee's time by not letting me speak and raise the question with the Minister of State.