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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: That is an administrative process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: It concerns whether there is a notification of the procedure if somebody has an extension to a planning application.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: An applicant must make an application for a renewal to the local authority but there is no obligation to put up planning notices. This is essentially the judgment of a chief executive to allow for estates that are nearly finished or give them more time if there is good reason why an estate has not moved ahead.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: It is a fair question because-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I am being told that they may be on the weekly list but it is a fair point and we can look at it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: There were developers who received legitimate planning permissions on zoned land and then went bust like many others did. Many of those now have their second coming.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: The point that people should know whether it is renewed is a fair one so we could look at requiring a chief executive to put the information up on the local authority website. We will bring clarity on that on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 120:In page 33, to delete lines 26 to 28 and substitute the following:"(i) as regards a particular permission in respect of a development of the type referred to in subsection (1)(a)(i) that relates to 20 or more houses and in respect of which an environmental impact assessment or an appropriate assessment, or both of those assessments, were not required before the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: This refers to amendments Nos.-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Amendments Nos. 17, 114, 115, 121 and 125 to 127, inclusive, propose to amend both sections 4 and 22 of the Bill to provide essentially that an application for an extension of duration of a planning permission will be treated as a new application for permission involving environmental impact assessment and appropriate assessment in particular cases, full public participation, a right of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: But it is an answer.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 123:In page 34, line 6, to delete "the date of the commencement of this section" and substitute "the day preceding the day that section 22of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016comes into operation".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 124:In page 34, line 10, to delete "commencement of this section" and substitute "the commencement of section 22of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I will give the courtesy of an answer. These amendments relate to the changes proposed in the Bill regarding the Part VIII process for the approval of local authority own development proposals, including social housing. The Bill proposes a number of key changes to the existing local authority own development approval processes in section 179 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have some sympathy for that view and it was raised yesterday, or whenever I was there, at Fingal County Council. It was also raised in the Seanad. If the council had a meeting in August or September and maybe councillors were away on holidays then the council may not be able to get a majority of the members into the chamber, but there may be a majority at the meeting who want to make a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: We are trying to ensure that it is a fully democratic decision also. The recommendation that came to us from some of the local authorities was that if a Part VIII planning decision is to be made and the council cannot get a majority of the local authority to do that, then it must be asked if there is an issue there.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Sometimes the opposite happens too where some people want to strategically vote against a Part VIII because it is in their area but the council as a whole recognises that it should be passed. I know that sounds cynical to anybody listening, but in my experience that does happen. I take the Deputy's point that if an issue is being debated in the council then a majority at the end of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: Otherwise reserves are being brought in to make a decision who really have had nothing to do with it. On balance, I will accept the thrust of the amendment and we will accept the wording of it if we can check it first with the legal advisers if that is okay. We will accept the Deputy's wording on Report Stage. If it is not suitable we will bring forward a similar wording. The issue has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Simon Coveney: This amendment relates to section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. Section 28 provides that planning authorities shall have regard to guidelines issued by the Minister in the performance of their planning functions, that is, in the determination of planning applications and in the adoption of development plans, etc. Section 28 was amended in 2015 by the insertion of a new...