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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: There is also an annual local authority report.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy Matthews. There is merit in what he says and in the requirement, so we would like to review and consider the matter further, particularly with regard to whether there are any practical ramifications that may result from its inclusion which could inadvertently undermine the basis of a particular development plan. If appropriate, we will bring back an amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Amendment No. 501 concerns section 60 and the new procedure enabling the timely variation of a development plan to make it materially consistent with a new or amended national planning statement where the Office of the Planning Regulator has informed the planning authority under section 59 that it is satisfied with the steps proposed by the planning authority. In this context, the chief...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Chief executives carry out their own screening assessment but they would take account of what the Minister says in his assessment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: An example of two local authorities co-operating would be co-ordinating a development on zoning across two local authority boundaries. Reference is made to “specified matters”, which would obviously be on a case-by-case basis. Any matter specified by the Minister would be on a case-by-case basis. Anything general would be like the example I have given the Deputy of zoning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: No, I am advised that this is solely to do with what is stated in 40(7)(b). It is basically for the co-ordinating of development plans for their functional areas. Boundaries are a different matter.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: It would be determined under the UDZ provisions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: It is for where they are not complying with the Minister's directions. If the Minister, as all Ministers do in the ordinary course of events, gives directions, and if the local authority does not comply with them, it gives the Minister the option to go to the High Court.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: It is a last resort.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: It is because it is being co-ordinated between two local authorities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: It is a last resort. One local authority may be complying but the other may not be complying.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: I move amendment No. 320: In page 100, line 13, to delete “and range”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Niall Collins: We see the merit in the amendment but we must consider its wording to define appropriately terms such as "public representative". The contribution of elected members in the course of their deliberations on the development plan should not be covered by this requirement but, reflecting on it, we will, if appropriate, bring forward an amendment on Report Stage.