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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. Let me try to clear this up. If an elected member makes a written submission to the chief executive as part of this process, which I presume they are entitled to do, that would be provided as part of the summary of the recommendations and submissions made by the Minister and the OPR and the summary of submissions made by elected representatives to the process, but not their verbal...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. That is grand. I think my group of amendments in this section is finished.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We move to amendment No. 476. Does Deputy Ó Broin or Deputy O'Callaghan wish to speak to this amendment?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Let me try to clarify this issue. Deputy Ó Broin thinks amendment No. 528 has been spoken to already.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Let us see if we can figure this out.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 528 was already discussed with amendment No. 302. Have we discussed amendment No. 302? Actually, it is in this grouping. We will continue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. I invite the Deputy to speak to amendments Nos. 476 and 477.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I am intrigued to know what "working well" means in this amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, and Deputy Ó Broin. Amendments Nos. 476 and 477 have been discussed. Deputy Ó Broin said that amendment No. 528 has already been dealt with. We can deal with a vote on it when we come to it but it has been discussed. I have three amendments here, amendments Nos. 480, 490 and 501.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 480 follows a similar line to the previous contributions made by Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan. This is in section 54(3)(b) on page 127. This is the interim report on implementation of a development plan. All of us have sat through a development plan process. We can see zoning maps for residential, mixed use, employment zones, etc., but when we come to the next...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. The next amendment is No. 490. This refers to the variation of a development plan and relates to section 56. Again, we have had a discussion on this matter. It states that the chief executive's report should include submissions by public representatives separately. I have used the term "elected members". It should be a separate category from others in terms of submissions. There...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Will the Minister of State clarify that response? I support the intention of avoiding duplication and unnecessarily taking up the resources and time of the local authority planners. Can the chief executive take account of the fact and content of any assessment that the Minister has conducted?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Does that mean the chief executive cannot carry out his own screening assessment on a national planning statement in relation to his own county?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: In other words, the national planning statement is applicable countrywide or may be subject to guidance in some situations, but chief executives can, in relation to their own county and the unique aspects of the county or certain locations in it, carry out a screening as well.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. That is grand. I thought it meant the chief executive could not carry out a screening. I accept that. I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan. We have completed that section. I will now put the question on amendment No. 302.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is okay. Does Deputy O'Callaghan wish to pose a question as well?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Okay. I call the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, to respond to that, if he wishes, but I do have the option to bring in the officials as well, if necessary.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: We were going to break at 3 p.m. anyway because of the changeover of Ministers. We have a vote in the Dáil Chamber on the Order of Business so I will suspend the meeting and suggest we take a 25 or 30-minute break.