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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On the e-planning system, when someone makes an application – I know Deputy Ó Broin wants to come in on this – the issue Deputy raised continues to be an issue in some areas where councils council scan documents to put them up online in order that people can access them. When people apply through the e-planning system, they are driven with the data fields to put the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 650 relates to the procedural powers of a planning authority under section 94. It would add a requirement for planning authorities to notify any person who made a submission on an application when additional material is received. The Bill already contains public notification procedures. Those are sufficient in this regard. I do not believe there is a requirement for what is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will just get this double-checked for the Cathaoirleach. If you are a party to an application and have made an observation on a planning application and additional information is sought, you will be advised of the latter. If there is a further material change– I have seen this happen, and it is under current procedures as well – that is deemed by a planning authority to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, on the decision. We will get clarity on this. If you made an observation and additional information is sought, you are advised that additional information has been sought.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, as long you made the original observation and you are a party to that file.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If unsolicited information was sent in that was not sought by a planning authority, it is unlikely that would be accepted. In that instance, however, no. The only time someone would submit further information in respect of a file would be either on receipt of a request for additional information or a clarification regarding additional information. There is an existing provision in this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Where a planning authority decides that an environmental impact assessment is insufficient and requires additional information, the person who made the submission to that planning authority will be advised that additional information has been sought. It is then up to the person who made the submission to follow that it has been submitted and to view it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 651: In page 214, line 1, before “the public” to insert “that”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 653: In page 215, to delete lines 4 to 7 and substitute the following: “(i) the date of the commencement of the part of the proposed development to which that aspect relates, or”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 654: In page 215, lines 22 and 23, to delete “UDZ scheme or SDZ scheme,” and substitute “development scheme or planning scheme, or any planning scheme under Part IX of the Act of 2000,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 655: In page 215, line 27, to delete “UDZ scheme or SDZ scheme,” and substitute “development scheme or planning scheme, or any planning scheme under Part IX of the Act of 2000,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 656: In page 215, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(6) (a) Where a planning authority grants permission for a development comprising or for the purposes of the harnessing of wind power for energy production and an offer has not yet been made pursuant to subsection (1) of section 34 of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 for the connection of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 659: In page 216, line 2, after “section” to insert “passed by not less than three-quarters of the total number of the members of the planning authority”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: For the information of members, I am looking at provisions relating to material contraventions. I will table some amendments on Report Stage, so I would be open to hearing members’ rationales for their amendments. Amendment No. 660 relates to section 106, which deals with the decision of the commission on appeal and proposes the deletion of subsection (7), which Deputy Ó Broin...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This relates to the difference between a decision on appeals to the commission and to applications. The Deputy is seeking to delete section 96(2)(b), which provides that in order for the planning authority to decide to grant permission by resolution for a land-based development that contravenes the development plan, the development must also be consistent with such provisions of the NPF,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The provision ensures there is consistency with a plan-led approach as well. It clearly sets out that, in the case of a development referred to, it would have to be consistent with the NPF, national planning policies and so on. It provides that it has to meet the criteria under section 96(2)(a)(i) and (ii) for that to be done. In the case of a development or proposed development, it is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am listening to the Deputy. I am just trying to get some things straight.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I think we may be speaking at cross-purposes here. This relates to the material contravention itself. The section provides that a material contravention to a development plan must be consistent with the matters referred to. That is a strong provision. In effect, section 96(2)(b) states that a material contravention brought forward for whatever reason, obviously through the planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is the other way around, if the Deputy knows what I mean.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This relates to applications and the making of material contraventions. They are, of course, related here. Basically, it is that the local authority and the planning authority would have to rightly refuse an application made in respect of a material contravention if the material contravention, as articulated in the development plan itself, did not comply with the national planning framework...