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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: The rationale of this is contractual commitments relating to the MAC. Why is it necessary even to have this wording? Why does the provision not just refer to the contractual arrangements relating to the MAC? Why is that not specified. Would that not be much cleaner and tidier?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Why does it not say that? If that is what is meant, why not say it in the legislation?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: That would be great.
- 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: On subsection (3)(b)(i), which relates to additional material being available for inspection, given the day and age we are in, should the additional information available for inspection not be available online in order that most people can access it?
- 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: It is just that elsewhere in the Bill there is not that level of flexibility and timelines are much harder. It is almost an ongoing theme of the Bill to try to tighten up timelines, so why in this instance is it felt that this makes sense?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but in other areas where deadlines are not met by applicants, there are not get-out routes like this.
- 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)-----