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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: My final points were on the other farming regulations and the other regulations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: The fencing and the anaerobic digestion, which were covered in the public consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the Chair's indulgence, can I ask whether the Minister of State knows the number of sub-themes that these are being broken into and whether there is an estimated timeline for the residential ones that are coming next?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not going to catch the Minister of State out. I am genuinely asking about the scheduling of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many other themes will there be roughly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister of State help me to visualise 1,000 cu. m? He could perhaps do it in terms of the measurement of the floor space just so I can get a sense of the size, first of all. Would it be 100 sq. m of floor space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. I do not know how it works in the Department of agriculture, but typically with exempted developments, there would not be a local authority building control inspection, for example. There would not be a check-up to see if the building was built in accordance with building control. The responsibility for that rests with the person who constructs the building. This is not meant as an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is a paper certificate. Is there anybody on site checking that where there is exempted development and 60% finance, the structure is being built properly? I would have thought this is a building control issue. Is it a building control issue for the building control unit in the Department or does the Department of agriculture get involved? I suspect most of our building control unit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: An inspection of the facility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a lovely part of the city.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Only in reference to these exemptions, yes, absolutely. With respect to the animal housing, the increase is an extra 150 sq. m. I do not have an issue with it, but are there typically conditions that are attached in terms of proximity to other structures and other buildings? The intention of this is not necessarily to increase the number of animals that are within them but to improve the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is really helpful. While we are on this matter, I will ask a couple of follow-up questions. For those of us who cannot visualise 1,000 cu. m, do we have a sense of the size of that physically? That would be helpful. In the same way that conditions are attached in terms of setbacks, etc., for the animal housing, are there any conditions to be applied here? One of the things this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking only so I will be clear. Does the Department of agriculture check involve a physical inspection of the structure, as it is being constructed, by somebody who would know whether it was compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: One of the issues concerns the size of the structure. Non-compliance with building controls is what could lead to the potential for unwanted leakage. We spent some hours here earlier talking about building defects, which, as the Minister of State knows from having been a member of the committee previously, was a big issue. How do we ensure that there are no building defects and that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: How do we make sure the structures are built in accordance with the building control regulations? I assume there are very specific building control regulations to ensure the safety of the storage so there will not be unnecessary spillage that could have environmental and public health complications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not building control checks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could I make a final suggestion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: As the Minister of State knows, building control compliance is an obsession of mine. Given the size and scale of the facilities, and that the primary objective is to ensure greater compliance with environmental and public health requirements, would it not make sense, particularly in the early stages of rolling out the new exempted development category, for local authorities in areas where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me make a final point. What we know from our experience of building defects in other categories is that the negative impact of defects is not necessarily visually evident at the point when the facility starts to operate. For example, water ingress could be relevant in the context of a facility that has a lot of semiliquid slurry. These things sometimes transpire only at a later stage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Exempted Development (Act of 2000)) Regulations 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: To be clear then, nobody who has gone and built a slurry storage tank, for example, will be able to avail of the exemption retrospectively. It is only for brand new facilities.