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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: We are into the costs now. That relates to section 263 onwards. Does the Deputy wish to take them section by section?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: For the information of members, we will take a short break at 4.15 p.m. for 15 minutes. That will leave us an hour and a half for the final part of the session. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will now have questions on section 263 onwards.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 1010 to 1015, inclusive, and 1017 to 1026, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 1010: In page 498, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “ “curtilage”, in relation to a dwelling, means an area immediately surrounding or adjacent to the dwelling which is used in conjunction with the dwelling, other than any part of that area that is a public place; “dwelling” includes— (a) a building or...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: It arose in discussions on enforcement that there was difficulty in using the current definition of "dwelling". I have supplied definitions here to try to expand the meaning of "dwelling". How do you take enforcement action against somebody-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: In a front garden, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: So any vehicle, vessel or anything is defined as a structure if it is within the curtilage of a building for dwelling.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I tabled the amendment because it was raised with me as having created difficulty previously in enforcement. If the Department is satisfied-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Okay. The definition of "dwelling" exists in a number of places. Would it be beneficial to bring it into the Bill?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Okay. That is fine. I am happy with that then. Will I deal with my amendments that are in this grouping?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: The Minister as well.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: I will fly through them. Amendment No. 1013 relates to section 314. That is where I thought it might be applicable to insert this amendment. It is on page 499. It is to try to collate decisions and particulars relating to sections 315, 316 and 317. These would be collated and reported to the Minister as prescribed in regulations. We often talk about enforcement, which probably does not...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: So each local authority is doing that-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: -----and they send that into the Department. Does the Department collate that information? I might ask how many warning letters were issued in Ireland in 2023 or how many were followed up within six weeks. I do not want to put any more work on the Department because it has enough as it is.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Is it something for the regulator or the Department?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: If I was trying to look at a pattern over the years, I would have to pull NOAC reports together and pull the detail out of that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: It is within the Minister’s gift. If the Minister wanted to have an overview of enforcement actions throughout the country-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: -----he could direct or ask and NOAC would then provide that report.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: The OPR would do it for the Minister, sorry.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Steven Matthews: Has that ever been requested?