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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of section 44(3)(b)(vi), "the number of housing units permitted under existing permissions but not yet built and the expected timeframe within which those units will be completed" is down to the local authority to decide.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Another thing is that if we look at it, any of the larger developments would have phasing within the grants.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 44(5) states: ...subsection (3), subsection (4) or section 222 or 230 shall prevent any land zoned for residential use or ... other ... being developed exclusively for housing of the types referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) ... of 219. Has Deputy Ó Broin a specific question on that section?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: In summary, there is nothing in essence in the legislation to prevent land which is owned for residential use being used for entirely social, affordable use. There is nothing to prevent that. That will come down to the housing strategies and assessment of local authorities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 372: In page 104, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(c) an analysis of vacant and derelict land or sites within the area and an estimation of the number of housing units that could be activated from the land or sites; (d) a strategy to activate vacant and derelict land or sites into housing units;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, if there is a five-year permission, it will be known from within the context of that permission. The local authority will have an idea of how long, typically, it will take to build what is provided for under the permission and the yield over the years. Therefore, the meaning of this text will really come down to looking at the scale of the planning permissions and how long it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would hope they might be a bit more granular than that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. I refer to looking to local authorities going down through this context. Some of them are already doing this. I would have thought it would not be an onerous exercise to go in and look.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: Section 10 of the existing development plan deals with this. Within that Act, it was amended for the climate action plans under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. It makes it more structured. It is, in essence, the same content as section 10 of the current Act. It just lays it out quite directly. It is a more structured reorganisation of what is currently in section 10.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We may need to update the references.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I think the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, already gave-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----a commitment that we would go back to the OPC about the correct reference. It references the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 but that was updated by the 2021 Act. We have committed to going back and looking at that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: This section relates specifically to environment and climate change. Deputy Ó Broin is well aware that a substantive amount of legislation in that area has been brought in by the Government, which has updated the development Act itself. It is not a question that we are coming to something where there has been a vacuum for many years; it is quite the reverse. There has been a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We are going to go back. That commitment was given by my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have grouped the Government amendments, Nos. 405, 406, 415 and 416. Amendments Nos. 399, 404, 408, 409, 412 and 413 are grouped together. They are all Sinn Féin amendments. We grouped amendments Nos. 401 to 403, inclusive, 407 and 414. There are, effectively, two groupings for Opposition amendments and one for Government amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not have a huge amount to read out, and the amendments are grouped. With the members' indulgence, I will go through them. Is that okay?