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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. Deputy Ó Broin does want to come in on this point as well, but does Deputy O'Callaghan want to contribute further?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are speaking now on amendment No. 919. We jumped ahead.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I know. The Deputy only has two amendments left in the group, amendments Nos. 910 and 919. Does he want to deal with amendment No. 919 first?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy was wondering about the rationale for the hectare.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. Deputy Ó Broin wants to come in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 910 is Deputy O'Callaghan's last amendment in this grouping and we have completed that grouping so would he like to go ahead on that amendment? I am conscious we will have the voting block in the Dáil a little earlier than expected and it will be right in the middle of this debate. We need to make a decision as to whether we will return to the meeting after the voting block.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: The last amendment in this grouping is amendment No. 1053 in my name. I seek clarification because I do not think I have quite understood this section. I ask the Minister of State to read the note on it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is section 374(2), is it not? The amendment proposed to add a new subsection. The sale or lease of land to a community-led housing body would not need the permission of the Minister in this case because the local authority could dispose of it. Is that covered?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I think the section is about the disposal of land below market value. Is that not what section 374 covers? If a local authority were to do that, there are certain conditions where the Minister must give consent to do that. For community land, does that have to be done for an approved housing body?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Would it need the consent of the Minister?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: That would also apply to community-led housing as we have covered earlier. Okay, that is fine.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: We now come to amendment No. 893 in the names of Deputies Duffy, Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh. I think Deputy Duffy wished to withdraw this amendment, so it is only in the names of Deputies Ó Broin, Gould and Ó Snodaigh.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 896 is in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett. There is nobody to move the amendment so it falls.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth. We were on amendment No. 909, on which a division had been requested.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Yes. I ask all members to remain.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: We are moving on to the next grouping. There are a number of amendments in this grouping, beginning with amendments Nos. 923 and 924 in my name. I will not move them as I understand what they mean now.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I did not move amendment No. 924 but I ask the Minister of State to read the response to it, if possible.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I accept that. I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 927, in my name, is also in this grouping. I will not be pursuing the amendment. The next amendments in the grouping are amendments Nos. 930 and 931, in the name of Deputy Ó Broin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suggest skipping over amendments Nos. 933 to 939, in this grouping, as they are in my name and I would have to leave the Chair to discuss them. Will the Minister of State read the response to amendment No. 940 because the Labour Party representatives might want to hear what he has to say?