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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will speak to my amendments Nos. 417, 418, 422 and 427. These are the only amendments in the group I have not spoken to yet so I will try to cover the four of them now, if that is helpful. Amendment No. 417 may have been referenced by the Minister and it refers to a development management statement including objectives for a range of things. I seek to insert a new paragraph (h), which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Minister needs to look at that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Deputy. Does the Minister have anything to add? No, and I take his response as being positive but we will have a look at it before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...708, 717, 739 to 743, inclusive, 746, 752, 754, 755, 765, 813, 836, 857, 878 to 880, inclusive, 912, 964, 972, 973, 975 to 978, inclusive, 1028 to 1035, inclusive, 1096, 1097, 1140 and 1184 are related and will be discussed together. This is quite a long grouping and I intend for us to go into private session at 2.55 p.m. to discuss the matter of meeting schedules.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will stop at 2.55 p.m. and go into private session.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: It is great to be able to sit down and talk to this because I was dying to get involved in that conversation. Going back to the IPCC report, all of the reporting on climate is that we need an immediate, rapid and concerted effort from all angles to address climate, without a shadow of a doubt. It is the reason I am here - we need to address climate. When I hear things like, "We will do...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 634 relates to page 205 of the Bill. This concerns pre-application consultation on large-scale residential development, LRD. Section 87(8)(c) reads a planning authority "may advise the prospective applicant of the considerations related ... to the environment". It is all about that discussion we had earlier. If we were to add "greenhouse gas emissions" to that, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will tell the Minister of State what I am trying to get at.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I was just going to say I read a planning decision where a condition had been removed from the very issue the Deputy is referring to by the senior planner because they said this is catered for under the Roads Act, but then the An Bord Pleanála decision upheld the original decision. From my reading of that, it seems to be understood at both local authority and An Bord Pleanála level...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: For clarification, the Road Traffic Bill that is before the House at the moment also defines a BUA. My understanding is there may be a definition in the Local Government Act as well. I understand that guidance is to be issued by the Department of Transport. I understand that these are two separate items of legislation, but I would expect that they should be aligned in some way for clarity....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I know the Deputies are not satisfied and they believe this should be included. We can deal with that when we come to disposing of amendment No. 166. We have completed our discussion of the amendment. I propose that we commence our discussions on amendment No. 168 when we reconvene. We had agreed to finish the meeting at 5 p.m. I will adjourn the select committee until 9 a.m. on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. We will reconvene tomorrow at 10 a.m. to resume our discussion of the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody. We meet to discuss the issue of the defective concrete blocks scheme. I welcome representatives of groups from counties Mayo, Clare and Donegal. We are joined in person by Ms Lisa Hone, chair, and Ms Angela Ward, Mica Action Group Donegal; by Dr. Martina Cleary, chair, and Ms Mary Hanley who is joining us online, Clare Pyrite Action Group; and Ms Josephine Murphy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I said at the outset that the questions posed by the groups before us will be put to those agencies when they come in. I am keeping a list of questions. Things often occur to witnesses after they have left a meeting. If the witnesses have other questions they want to pose, they should send them to the committee secretariat. We will list all those questions and put them to the agencies....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I said at the start that the purpose of the meeting was to meet with the representative groups from Mayo, Clare and Donegal and that the second meeting will be to have in the Housing Agency and a number of other agencies. They were all unavailable this time so the committee decided to reschedule that meeting. We will take the concerns, questions and issues raised here and put them to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...to become experts on concrete standards, etc., which they never in their lives would have dreamed they would have to because they have been thrown into this. I imagine the stress of living with watching your house crumble. I have listened clearly to what the witnesses said. Ms Hone stated this was the second or third time she has been at an Oireachtas committee. I have no doubt she...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Welcome back to Committee Stage consideration of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Noonan, and his officials. We will move on to amendment No. 101 in the name of Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. How stands the amendment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: I suggest that if the discussion is on section 11, when we come to the question on section 11, the Deputy comes in at that point. I do not want to be going back to amendments we have already discussed because it opens it up to everybody.