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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I get that, and my suggestion was not that there would be public participation in the pre-application consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: If someone was seeking a pre-application consultation with the board, would there be a notification of that that might inform the public that a substitute consent process was likely to commence at some stage? A notice would not need to be put in a newspaper saying that X intended to apply to An Bord Pleanála for pre-application consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I am just suggesting it, as it might be helpful for the public to be aware that there is some sort of substitute development happening on a site that may have required substitute consent for years. It would be a pre-warning or pre-notification to people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: If there is a site that requires an EIA but does not have one and now it requires substitute consent, the EIA, had it been produced at the time of application, would have set a baseline for the environment, that is, what the environment was like, the receiving waters, the soil quality or whatever may be the case. It would have suggested mitigation measures to offset any harmful action that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kelly. I call Deputy O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I think we have lost Mr. Kelly temporarily. We got the gist of the message, which was that this has stood up to European scrutiny and is robust.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Does Deputy O'Callaghan want to keep going? He has a couple more minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Deputy. We are in the third round now, so members may indicate if they wish to speak. I call Deputy Ó Broin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Ó Broin. I will intervene to say that, now that our meetings are three hours long, it had been my intention to take a small break at the halfway mark to give people a break, if needed. Do members know how much longer they intend to continue? Does everybody wish to contribute? If so, I may propose a short break now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I would take a break at some point in the three hours. If we only intend to continue for a short time, I could push that out and we could continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin only has a couple more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Does anybody else wish to come in? No. Okay, we will take those four questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kelly. I call Senator Cummins. I will then ask one brief question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Kelly. I ask him to send the committee some detail regarding what it is that is expected would or should be contained in a remedial environmental impact assessment, EIA, or a remedial Natura impact statement, NIS. It is not something that I have come across before. I am familiar enough with what goes into an EIA or an environmental impact assessment report, EIAR, but not a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: We would appreciate some detail in that regard and we will circulate the information to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Fire away, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the members. I thank Mr. Kelly, Ms Brady and Ms Holohan for their attendance. It has been helpful to us in our scrutiny of the heads of this proposed Bill. We will proceed to draft a pre-legislative scrutiny report, approve it and furnish it to the Department and the Minister as soon as we can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: That was not agreed by the committee. I understood that we would just have this one session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: I understand that there is some urgency with this legislation. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 (5 Oct 2021)

Steven Matthews: Go ahead.