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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: In terms of pre-application consultation, other developments may be prescribed in regulation. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I ask that we consider that in the formulation of the regulations.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Clarification on cable infrastructure would be helpful because we all want to speed up the delivery of renewable energy. Those applications go through a full appraisal anyway. Amendment No. 694 relates to section 114. That section refers to a "person who is eligible to apply", unless we were in regulations to prescribe developments this would not apply to. Subsection (3) states: Where...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: A pre-application consultation is part of the LRD process but there is a timeline on it. That does not take into account the workload of the commission. I suggest here we expand that to developments that may be prescribed by the Minister in order to address the eligibility criteria that prescribed developments would have a timeline of four weeks, or the same as an LRD pre-application...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I take the point that the local authority is the granting authority for an LRD pre-application consultation, but the terrestrial aspect of an offshore renewable comes under the local planning authority as well. I simply request that, when looking at the possibility of the Minister prescribing by regulation types of development, the same attention be paid to energy projects as is paid to LRD...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: That is if the applicant has been granted a pre-application consultation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I have no doubt that a pre-application consultation would arise at one point or another. The reason for the amendment is to try to take the unknown quantity out expeditiously and apply a timeframe, as we do in large-scale residential developments. I take on board the Minister of State's points about the capacity issues. We will address them as time goes on. On that basis, I will withdraw...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 644, 645, 679, 680, 815 to 818, inclusive, 820, 821, 823 ,824, 826, 827, 850, 851, 853 to 856, inclusive, and 858 to 869, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together. These amendments are all technical amendments.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance this afternoon. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the committee.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 648 to 650, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Will Deputy O'Callaghan speak to amendments Nos. 648 and 649? I will speak on amendment No. 650 after that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I agree with a lot of what has been said. However, you would have to be careful. An applicant is uploading an electronic document. It gets stamped when it comes into the local authority. If you leave the power to the applicant to upload an e-document you need to be able to verify that the e-document up now is the same as the e-document that is there three weeks later. There has to be a...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Will the Minister respond on amendment No. 649, which deals with the issue of the clock starting to tick when the public has access to documents?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: It is basically a good idea in terms of fairness and access.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Does Deputy O'Callaghan have a further point to make?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: Will the Minister read the note on amendment No 650 in my name? I think the amendment is fairly clear.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: In other words, there is a public notification through a-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: I wish to get clarity on this because I have never been 100% sure. When you make a submission, you get a letter back. Actually, you do not get notice from the local authority if you made a submission, but you do on the decision.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: You are notified by the local authority that further information has been sought.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: For further clarification, if it is unsolicited information sent in by the applicant, are you notified as someone who has made a submission that further information has been received?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)
Steven Matthews: For clarity, if an environmental impact assessment report is part of the application and the local authority deems it to be deficient or missing information, it can seek further information from the applicant. In such circumstances, if you have made a submission, you will be informed when the information is received rather than when it is requested. Is that correct?