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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Yes, six months.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Not necessarily. There could be additional requests for information.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Yes, that is correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: These are existing provisions.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Effectively, no.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: There is the provision of non-standard development, which is, under the current 2000 Act, strategic infrastructure developments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Amendment No. 775 seeks to delete paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (1) of section 160, as well as subsections (2) to (5) of section 110, and replace them. This would have the effect of changing the provisions from providing that where the planning authority is dealing with an application from a person who is not in compliance with a previous permission, has carried out substantial...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: It has been used very rarely.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: We think so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: We will have to clarify that. We can come back to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: It has been used but very rarely. I do not have exact figures on hand.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: If even.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank both Deputies for the points they raised. It is important that the planning authority is not a judge, jury and executioner in this regard. We do not support bad actors. That is important. What is set out here is similar to the language used in the 2000 Act. It allows the local authority and the commission to take the necessary steps while ensuring that we continue to resource the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: First, I wish to outline that all sections of the Act were reviewed by the Attorney General and the legal advisers as part of the review of the planning legislation and the preparation of this Bill, and certainly this section was as well. To Deputy O’Callaghan’s point, each of the applicants should be afforded due process. We are not trumping one over the other - either the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: Yes there was engagement with the CCMA and a review was undertaken.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: There is not a particular reference to it. It was done in the broad aspect of this legislation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: I move amendment No. 776: In page 299, to delete lines 41 and 42 and substitute the following: A reference in this section to an application for permission shall be construed as a reference to—

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: I move amendment No. 777: In page 300, line 1, to delete “permission for retention” and substitute “retention permission”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Alan Dillon: I move amendment No. 778: In page 300, line 7, to delete “section,” and substitute “section”.