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

Steven Matthews: Sure. A landowner of an adjoining site could reasonably expect to get planning permission for something that is contained in the zoning objectives. Is that included under the term "other plan"? Such zoning objectives would be included in a local area plan, area action plans or that kind of thing.

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

Steven Matthews: Okay, fine. I am grateful for the clarity on that. Amendment No. 874 is in respect of exemption from assessment. This is an amendment to page 380 of the Bill, section 205(2). It is really just to get an understanding. This is an exemption from a requirement for assessment by the commission. I am wondering about the circumstances that would exist where there is an exemption for an...

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

Steven Matthews: Section 205(2) states that before deciding on the request, the commission shall invite the planning authority and also consider whether transboundary convention states should be informed about it. Is there any invitation to the public to be part of that? In what cases would the exemption be applicable?

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

Steven Matthews: Because it is in relation to some sort of emergency.

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

Steven Matthews: My understanding is that the Article 2.4 the Minister of State referred to is for emergency measures.

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

Steven Matthews: I am going to have to withdraw amendment No. 881 because I misworded it. I meant to refer to the scoping opinion but my amendment refers to the "screening report". I will just take a look at it for a second. It is an amendment to section 210, which is on page 391. It is probably similar to the previous amendment about the screening note. It is on the notice regarding a determination in...

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

Steven Matthews: It is the same as with the previous amendment I spoke to, which was about screening. That also applies with scoping.

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

Steven Matthews: Is amendment No. 882 next? I am just looking for clarification on this. My suggestion was that a consideration regarding restoration be inserted there. This is section 213(7). I suggest that a new section 213(7)(d) be added that provides for conditions regarding restoration. Is the Minister of State satisfied that conditions for restoration are sufficiently covered as regards offsetting,...

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

Steven Matthews: It is, yes.

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

Steven Matthews: That is fine. It aligns with the European directive. That is fine.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 883 and 884 are linked. They refer to section 214(2)(a) on page 397. This section is headed: "Additional provisions applicable to application in connection with development already carried out." This is development that has already been carried out so how is screening for environmental impact assessment to be carried out? I actually do not understand what section 214 is...

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

Steven Matthews: On the clarification I am looking for, this relates to retrospective because it is for development already carried out. Is that correct?

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

Steven Matthews: I am confused about this. If a retrospective consent is what was previously known as a substitute consent, the very fact of it being a retrospective consent means that the development did need an environmental impact assessment. Why would screening for an EIA be carried out in that case?

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

Steven Matthews: As such, it is part of the substitute consent process to screen it first to see whether it needed an EIA and needed to go through the retrospective consent process.

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

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 725 to 727, inclusive, 729, 734 to 736, inclusive, 738, 776, 779 to 784, inclusive, 788, 789, 791 and amendments Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, to 791 are related and will discussed together.

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

Steven Matthews: If the Minister of State wishes to speak to the ministerial amendments, he may do so.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: 136. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,462 of 20 March 2024, if his attention has been drawn to a recent response from the HSE that indicates there are no current plans to expand the provision of local neurology services, including access to a consultant neurologist in Wexford General Hospital (details supplied); if he is concerned about the gap in service...

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

Steven Matthews: Is it not? Okay, that clarifies that for me. Amendment No. 830 refers to section 184, Natura impact reports. The Minister of State might clarify this. Section 184(2)(c) provides that the report "shall identify all potential significant effects of the proposed plan on a European site, whether such effects arise from the plan itself or the plan in combination with any project or other...

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

Steven Matthews: Please do.

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

Steven Matthews: The Minister of State covered amendments Nos. 874 and 875. I was unsure about the section. It mentions adversely affecting the purpose. The purpose is obviously development in the public interest in an emergency situation.