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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan, allow me to make a suggestion. With the agreement of the committee, we will go into private session for a moment to allow the officials to clarify this. I am having difficulty understanding it as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to clarify the previous point.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: It is a good question. Representatives from the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, will appear before the committee in a couple of weeks. It would be a good question to put to them. Do they account for that, audit it or even ask about it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is another one we can add to the list.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: It gets 12 weeks then with an environmental impact assessment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I do not see any further indication there now so I will put the question now. The question is that the new section be agreed to.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: The next amendment is part of a grouping and, given that it is almost 6 p.m., I suggest we finish here for now. In terms of a progress update, my tallies tell me that we have spoken to 1,008 or 1,009 amendments so far. We have completed 158 sections and have had around 350 votes at this stage, so well done everybody.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and his officials. I will read a note on housekeeping matters to refresh people's memories because the committee did not sit last week. We will be starting with section 99 and amendment No. 674, which is part of a grouping. Our meeting schedule for this week has been agreed. As part of that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 674 to 677, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together. If amendment No. 674 is to be agreed, then amendments Nos. 675 to 677, inclusive, which are in the names of Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan, cannot be moved.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will call Deputy Ó Broin. I want to get a clarification on something too.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: We have about four minutes to get there. If the Deputy wants to finish his point, I can bring the Minister back in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I want to get clarity that a group of two, three or four that has put in a submission on the planning application, is not prevented from that. This is coming to the event after the planning application is made.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will suspend the meeting so that we can go to the Dáil Chamber for a vote. We will return five minutes after the vote is completed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Welcome back everybody. Minister, you were going to respond, I think, to points raised by Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin on amendment No. 674 and the related grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Is amendment No. 678 agreed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: It is to change "retention" to "retention permission".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 681 is in my name. I withdraw it but may reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: Question proposed: "That section 102 stand part of the Bill."