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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated list of new autism classes opening in Dublin in September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15775/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider classifying Covid-19 as an occupational illness, as has been recommended in many EU countries; what supports are in place for people who were in receipt of special leave with pay due to long-Covid; what will replace this payment for front-line workers who are still unable to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. On amendment No. 735, does the Minister have a view on the way non-material alterations are treated and defined in the section? How does it reflect the advice that the Aarhus Convention compliance committee provided to the Netherlands when seeking to correct its approach to public participation obligations when revisiting permissions and the response to Decision VII/8m...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It was merely an oversight in the original draft that MARA was not included.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Can I ask-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: My question is about section 135. I am referencing those sections to ask about section 135, if the Minister will bear with me and let me ask my question.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is about the commission. Those sections allow the commission or the planning authority to seek further information in relation to a material alteration request. Does section 135, which is about extensions of permissions, allow a planning authority to seek further information?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: A material alteration that is talked about in sections 138 and 139 includes an extension of permission, as is covered in section 135.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes. So an extension or permission is a material-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: -----alteration. Therefore, the planning authority or the commission can seek further information.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: If it has not been provided in their application for an extension, could they seek more information about why the planning permission was not built out in time, if they want to get more information about that?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: So it is there.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: All of my questions are reasonable.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will be. My question relates to section 135 but also involves section 138, which sets out the "Procedural powers of planning authority in relation to material alteration request" and section 139, which similarly sets out the "Procedural powers of Commission in relation to material alteration request".

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

Cian O'Callaghan: A non-material extension of duration shall be granted under section 136. Why? What is the rationale for that? What kind of permissions would not be material, thereby causing an extension to the duration of the permission to be automatically granted?