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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but does it not then create a situation where they are more likely not to comply with the subsection-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: -----because they know there is this get-out clause?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: But if they do not, they may be okay because of this. That is why it just seems a bit unusual in terms of the overall Bill because-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: So the planning authority, in deciding whether it is appropriate to do so or not, would decide that there is a level of engagement and would consider it appropriate. If there is no level of engagement-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: -----you would not expect a planning authority to exercise this.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking about the extension of duration aspect. If you get a five-year permission for a development or a scheme and then need to make a slight non-material change, you are automatically granted permission. I can see the logic or rationale behind that but this about extending the time. If you are changing a colour scheme, why do you need another three or five years?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Should the legislation, given we are in 2024, not reflect that it should be available to people online? If it is available for inspection and not available online, for many people that just cuts out access.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Subsection 139(8) states: Where a person who made the material alteration request fails to comply with a requirement referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (5) within such period as may be prescribed, the Commission may— (a) extend that period, where it considers it appropriate to do so, or (b) treat the material alteration request as having been withdrawn. Why is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister of State explain the rationale for amendment No. 749 in detail? There seems to be an issue with it in terms of the relevant period and that being four weeks, regardless of whether or not additional information is received. Will the Minister of State explain about the four weeks? If additional information is received, is more time not allocated then? I may be misreading it...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Regarding clarity in this section, if additional information is received, is it still only four weeks?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: If additional information is received, is more time not required to deal with it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I want to be helpful, but I am having difficulty understanding this because of all the different subsections and the way it is written. I know the amendment is trying to clear it up. For the benefit of everyone, will the Minister of State explain what this amendment actually means in terms of additional information? If we look at section 138(3)(b)-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Sure, and we might just get a summation then on the public record.
- 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 of State for the clarification. Section 140(15)(a)(iv) states, "where more than one of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph applies, the period specified in those provisions that expires last,". With this amendment, some of those foregoing provisions are taken out. Is it referencing the foregoing provisions in 140(15)(a)(i) and (ii)?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Okay. Amendment No. 750 is effectively a repeat amendment of amendment No. 749. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: It is similar to amendment No. 749, is it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Sorry, it is connected to it. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: What is the purpose of amendment No. 750? It seeks to delete the words "to the request or requests concerned". After these amendments, section 140(15)(a)(iii) would read, "where subsection (3) of section 138 applies, 4 weeks from the date of the expiration ...".
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Four weeks applies from the date of expiration.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That is what we were saying before. Therefore, four weeks would apply after this. Amendment No. 751 states: "In page 277, lines 20 and 21, to delete “the planning authority makes one or more than one such request under subsection (2) of section 138 and”." Does that mean that when information is received, a longer period applies or is it just four weeks?