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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I think that makes sense. Deputy Boyd Barrett, do you wish to speak to these?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We have gone through that in quite some detail. The last thing I ask the Minister of State is in regard to amendment No. 484 in the name of Deputy McAuliffe. Will the Minister of State read the note? We have fulfilled the-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: How stands amendment No. 353?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will now suspend the meeting until 1 p.m. when we will meet back in this room. We will then meet until 4 p.m. and that will conclude our meetings for this week. I thank the Minister of State Deputy O'Donnell for his attendance here this morning.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everybody back to our consideration of Committee Stage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell. We will resume where we finished before lunch. We are on section 46 and amendment No. 382 in the name of Deputy Ó Broin, which has already been discussed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We have to let Deputy O'Donoghue leave the room. I move now to amendment No. 388.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Following the very positive response of the Minister of State on amendment No. 389, which is in my name, I will not move the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: As Deputy Ó Broin has a question on section 47; we will invite the officials back in and get clarification on the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Is this about the references being to the 2015 Act and not the 2021 Act?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 399 to 416, inclusive, are grouped. I do not know if there is a logical grouping of them. We will start with Deputy Ó Broin, if he wishes to move and speak to amendment No. 399. We can take it as we go through that group of amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Deputy O'Callaghan, you are part of the mix there as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We can do that. Deputy Ó Broin, if you wish to move and speak to amendment No. 399 and then the others in that grouping, we can get the Minister of State's response and we will go to amendment No. 407 separately.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does the Minister of State wish to respond to that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: You can come back in then, Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to 30 children awaiting interventions through the disability teams (details supplied); if his Department can provide funding to provide parent training programmes for the families impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13362/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to significant waiting lists for orthodontic treatment in the national maxillofacial unit in St. James's Hospital; if staffing levels are at the required level in all positions in this unit; what processes are in place to attempt to reduce wait times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13477/24]