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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 726 is in this grouping.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Could the Minister of State include amendment No. 729 because it is related?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: My concern with these, particularly the move away from substantial works to commencement, is that in trying to create certainty, and I appreciate that it is a case of who gets to decide what is and is not substantial, the Minister has gone too far on the other end to the extent that getting a commencement notice does not require any work to have been started. The applicant has been given...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that unless the meaning of substantial works is defined, there is a problem. Who gets to decide? I accept that there needs to be a much clearer definition. From what the Minister has said in speaking to his amendments, it seems that "commence" means simply having received a commencement notice. No actual work could have commenced. If I am interpreting the Minister of State's...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State is on section 135-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister of State on section 135(4)? Which part of that section is the he referring to?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Before the Minister goes to the amendment, which part of section 135(3) is he referring to?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am not in the same place as the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is section 135 then.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It refers to such documents or information as may be prescribed. Amendment No. 726 states "after “permission” to insert “, provided that the development to which the permission relates has commenced".
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The one where there is an absence of alternative solutions is clear enough. Then there is the one on imperative reasons. The reason I am asking is I am trying to think of a real life case. I am thinking of offshore wind as an example. If the relevant plan is to facilitate offshore wind projects, then it will have beneficial consequences of primary importance to the environment because it...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What does "has commenced" mean?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is that it can be or will be? The whole point of this is to provide certainty.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What is the intention of the regulations from the point of view of the officials?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Am I correct in saying we would need more than a commencement notice but very minimal site works might have happened over a five-year period?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister of State in a position to share even some of the preliminary thinking on what that is? In some sense, the Minister of State is asking the committee to accept a significant change, which is from substantial commencement or substantial works, notwithstanding the legal ambiguity of that. Could the Minister of State not just, for example, introduce regulations to stipulate...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: This is about lowering the threshold.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: How is it not?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: That does not address my question in the sense that I fully accept the phrase "substantial works", if it is just the phrase "substantial works" that is legally ambiguous. The Minister of State had one option, which would have been to provide regulations to clarify very explicitly what substantial works were. The Minister of State has chosen not to do that. Instead, he has used a different...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let me ask the Minister of State this question. We are taking out the words "substantial works" and putting in the word "commenced" but the Minister of State is telling me that the regulations that will underpin and provide the clarity and certainty to "commenced" will set out what would be "substantial works".