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

Kieran O'Donnell: The record of the OPR to date is very good.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I think it does that but we can beg to differ.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: To which amendments is the Deputy referring?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: The councillors serve a very good role in terms of their reserve functions in that area and their own local areas. The Deputy asked about councillors and public consultation by the OPR. The answer to both questions is "Yes".

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I will have to come back to the Deputy on that technical point.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It is relevant to the section.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I suspect that it is pending the outcome of the OPR's consideration. I suspect it is suspended until the Minister makes a decision but I would like to get a technical note on it. That would be the logical sequence. This section is about the regulator deciding.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Ultimately, it will be suspended until the Minister makes a direction.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It comes from the OPR, not the Minister.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 291: In page 91, to delete lines 33 and 34 and substitute the following: “(iv) the Commission, (v) the National Transport Authority, and (vi) any other body, as the Office of the Planning Regulator considers appropriate.”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 294: In page 92, line 15, after “and” to insert the following: “in the summary of submissions submitted to the Minister under subsection (12), which will be considered”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 295: In page 93, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(13) The Minister may prescribe a period or periods that shall be disregarded for the purposes of reckoning any period referenced in this section.”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 296: In page 94, line 2, after “any” to insert “summary of”.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: They are all in the one grouping.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I apologise; I am talking about amendments Nos. 666, 715, 747 and 753. Did I call out amendment No. 716?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I apologise.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: For the sake of clarity, amendments Nos. 666, 715, 747 and 753 enable the applicant to agree to the planning authority... I am sorry; that is it. There is a misprint. The amendments enable the applicant to agree to the planning authority taking longer than the periods provided for. Amendment No. 666 relates to section 98, which is titled "Time limit for decision of planning authority",...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: It applies to all planning applications and it applies both ways. If the planning authority asks for more time, the applicant can give consent. Equally, the applicant can tell the local authority that, if it wants to take more time, he or she does not have an issue with that. In practice, it would apply where the planning authority came back to the applicant saying that it needed more...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 666 to section 98 relates to decisions of a planning authority.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: If the Deputy looks at section 98, he will see it relates to any decision. Section 110 relates to time limits for the determination of appeals by the commission, the board.