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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: In accordance with the motion carried by Dáil Éireann on 27 February 2024, it is permissible to proceed before the eight minutes provided for in Dáil Standing Order 108(2) as I have had indication from the Deputy that he will not be present and is unable to appoint a substitute at this point. Because we are all available in attendance, I can now proceed to take the roll call...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We can adjourn now and recommence at six o'clock. Please note for the Minister of State what the questions are to allow the officials to have answers prepared for when we come back.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will wait a moment for the officials to come back in. Everybody will be delighted to hear that we will finish the meeting at 8 p.m. Tomorrow our scheduled meeting is from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and it is proposed to take a break at some point during that meeting for 20 minutes or so. We will meet from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, as agreed. We are debating section 34 and Deputy Ó Broin...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: So at the review. The Deputy is talking about section 21 at the review but he is saying -----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will let Deputy Ó Broin in at this point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will hear from one Deputy at a time. We will hear from Deputy Gould, who indicated, and then go back to the Minister. We have had a really good chat about this and I want to get back to the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will finish at 2 p.m. on the dot, if the Deputy wants to continue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin spoke to amendment No. 207 and the Minister responded on it. We will resume on amendment No. 211 at 3 p.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We will suspend and reconvene at 12 noon. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement. We will see him after the short break.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am delighted the Minister mentioned Newtownmountkennedy, which is the home town of my father-in-law, Noel Doyle. He is a very proud resident, as are all the other residents. There is a scheme to rejuvenate the main street, which is another example of a wide street. The town has seen considerable population growth, which is a good thing. Many houses have been built throughout north...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Today's meeting will be split into two 90-minute sessions to discuss homelessness and follow up on a report on a number of issues related to homelessness and housing, published by the committee last year. For the first session we are joined by officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...Executive, the Department and Cork City Council. We are now joined by Seán Moynihan, Gráinne Loughran and Frank Dillon from ALONE; Louise Bayliss, Carly Bailey and Marcella Stakem from the National One Parent Family Alliance; Dermot Kavanagh, Kerry Brennan and Paul Sheehan from Cork Simon; and Richard Guiney and Gerard Farrell from Dublin Town. They are all very welcome. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will start off where I had to finish last Thursday evening. Amendments Nos. 710 and 712 are related to amendment No. 661, which we have already discussed. The amendments deal with reasons for material contravention of a development plan. Amendment No. 661 sought to include a reason for a material contravention of a development plan in a decision by a local authority for the furtherance...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: The rest of my amendments in this grouping are on environment and climate and the checks and balances that need to be applied. Amendment No. 724 relates to consultation prior to a request under section 135, which relates to extensions and alterations to planning permission. Section 134(5)(c) states: (c) advise the person who made the application under subsection (1) regarding the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: As it is now 8.15 p.m. the committee will adjourn. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and his officials for their attendance. I will see everyone tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 170 is mine. I cannot move or speak to it from the Chair. I will ask the Minister if he will read the response to that and I will not speak to it at all.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Deputies have made their point well. The Minister of State has responded that he is not accepting the amendment. The amendment can be pressed at an appropriate point but I want to move on because we have had good back and forth on it. I want to confirm, yesterday the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, said that amendment No. 251 is withdrawn. Can I confirm with the Minister of State...