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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Just to move this forward, we could look adding that the regulations require positive approval, by way of assurance to the Deputies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes. It is an operational matter.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will offer last comments on these amendments. I agree with both Deputies regarding the IPI. It is a hugely valuable contributor to our planning system. It is highly regarded and respected by Government. There has been significant engagement with the IPI. There have been quite a number of meetings with officials, so the IPI was very much an active participant in the process of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: It is the same, in terms of the regulations. Section 4(5) provides that "...every regulation (other than a regulation referred to in subsection (4)) of the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: As I said, this provision is here specifically as a precautionary measure. It has not been used to date but it is in other Bills and other legislation, including the Local Government Act.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: By way of responding, we can take OPC advice on legislation to regularise any regulations, if that is of any assurance to the Deputies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 44 provides that the Minister shall lay a report before the Oireachtas and the committee on the regulations required for the Act and a detailed commencement plan for the Act. I cannot accept this amendment as it would not be appropriate to have such a provision within legislation. However, I am happy to keep the committee informed on work being undertaken to repair and update...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: On the first question, it is a well-made point on multiple regulations overlapping, particularly in relation to An Coimisiún Pleanála. The Department established the planning regulations review working group to review and prepare the secondary legislation. The timelines are ambitious and may change according to the demands. The Department is working with An Bord Pleanála to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: On the Deputy's first question, early 2025-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes, early 2025. On the second question about local authority staffing, there are challenges in recruitment across the local government sector. Notwithstanding this, there has been an intake of additional planning staff across all local authorities. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, sanctioned that last year or the year before. The bigger issue for this legislation is as part of a broader...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: On the SPPRs, the guidelines become national policy statements under section 25. They remain in place until replaced by the new national policy statements.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: They are under consideration at present. Again, I do not have to hand which specific ones. I can revert back to the committee on those.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I know that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes, we can do that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Yes, that is something we must take back to the Minister. As I said, it is being prepared at present so it is still a work in progress.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: Amendment No. 45 provides that the Minister shall lay a draft schedule of future legislation to deal with the following topics before the Oireachtas and committee, as mentioned by the members: reform of CPO powers, land value sharing tax, implementation of planning recommendations from the report of the expert committee on Traveller accommodation, and legislation relevant to the Act that...