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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I spent a long time discussing this yesterday. The extension of duration of permission provisions in the Act of 2000 refer to "substantial works" having being carried out before the extension is sought. This language previously caused some uncertainty, particularly in the courts, and by referring to works being commenced brings certainty to it. As I said to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, what we...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 727 not moved.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 728: In page 267, to delete lines 10 to 12 and substitute the following: "(8) Where the deciding authority is the Commission, it shall notify the following of the receipt of a request under subsection (1): (a) where the permission relates primarily to land, the planning authority in whose functional area the development the subject of the permission is situated or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. It is to make sure the notification happens to the relevant authorities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We have not got to these sections yet.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Sorry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Section 135 is about an alteration or extension to a permission.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If it is material, they can request further information.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It does. One has got to look at section 137 - "Material alteration of permission" - as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, further information.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is there, if the Deputy looks under section 138(2), which allows a planning authority to seek "further information ... where, in the opinion of the planning authority, that information is necessary to enable it to make the decision," and to seek "revised particulars, plans or drawings in relation to the development or proposed development, where the planning authority is considering making...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 729: In page 267, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Limitations on extension of duration of permission 136. (1) The duration of a permission shall not be extended under this Chapter (whether the extension is a material alteration or not) more than once. (2) Where the duration of a permission is extended under this Chapter, the period of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 730: In page 267, line 15, to delete "and Part 5".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 731: In page 267, to delete lines 21 to 23 and substitute the following: "(3) Where the deciding authority is the Commission, it shall notify the following of the alteration or extension: (a) where the permission relates primarily to land, the planning authority in whose functional area the development the subject of the permission altered or extended is situated...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Is it a question on the section?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am happy to take it if the Deputy wants me to, as long as it is a reasonable question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: First, it is extremely rare. It is whatever is not covered by the provisions relating to a material alteration of a permission, which is covered in section 137. We discussed this a little yesterday or the day before. It could be a colour scheme or something similar that is not material to the development itself. It is that type of thing. It is very rare.