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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 am not sure whether amendments Nos. 941 and 945 are related. They are both in Deputy Ó Broin's name. Amendment No. 945 is also in the name of Deputy O'Callaghan and others.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 941 is solely in-----

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

Steven Matthews: I tabled a Topical Issue on rights of way last night. It is for the planning authority to put rights of way in the development plan, but not to determine what is a right of way.

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

Steven Matthews: No, I did not get that response. It is my reading of it.

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

Steven Matthews: I do not believe it is up to a local authority to designate a public right of way.

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

Steven Matthews: Just for clarity, the reason I referred to apartments in my amendment was because I wanted to clarify that. I remember having this discussion on previous legislation where I asked if apartments were covered by "houses" and that definition was given to me. I put it in as a clarification on the record.

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

Steven Matthews: I would like you to be brief-----

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

Steven Matthews: Okay. We discussed it. Does Deputy O’Callaghan want to take amendments Nos. 910 and 919?

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 898 is in my name. I withdraw it based on the clarification.

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

Steven Matthews: It is on landscape conservation areas.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan also has a question on this.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 946 is in my name. I will withdraw when the time comes because I do not think it is necessary. It is now 9 p.m. I propose that we meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow and deal with amendments Nos. 933 to 939, inclusive, which are in my name and which we skipped over, and the four ministerial amendments after that. I thank the Minister of State for attending.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Land Issues (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I want to discuss the issue of public rights of way in the country. I expect this is a matter for the Department of Justice but I nonetheless want to thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for being here tonight to take this issue. The background to me raising this, apart from having some experience in dealing with rights of way issues where we have tried to include them in county...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Land Issues (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State for the response. Having spent nine weeks and 126 hours so far in the basement dealing with the new Planning and Developing Bill, I believe that many of those sections referred to by the Minster of State will no longer be relevant because of the new section numbers of the Bill. I take the Minister of State's point on this. I have been through county...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a decision (details supplied); the actions she will take to ensure that this issue is rectified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the urgency in providing funding for a building in Newtownmountkennedy (details supplied); if he is concerned that the existing accommodation is unsuitable; the actions he will take to ensure this project proceeds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16501/24]

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

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody to the meeting. We are here to continue our Committee Stage deliberations on the Planning and Development Bill 2023. I take the opportunity to welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, and to congratulate him on his appointment. I wish him the very best of luck with that. Before we finished last week, I gave a rough estimate of how many amendments we have...

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

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 774: In page 297, line 34, after "application" to insert "with a deduction for planning services administrative fee, as prescribed". I will speak to my amendments here. I am somewhat in agreement with Deputy Ó Broin. I have often felt that the fees for planning applications do not reflect the significant amount of work that goes in at local authority level, the...

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

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 1145 relates to section 503. If only we were on page 649. Section 503 is on the fees payable to planning authorities. On a similar point to that raised by Deputy Ó Broin, I really feel we need to increase planning fees to value the complex work that is done. That is the subject of my amendment No. 1145. I am not entirely sure of the process that is to be followed in...

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

Steven Matthews: To clarify, the administrative burden of returning partial fees would outweigh the administrative burden of just invalidating them and sending it on.