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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Exactly. During pre-legislative scrutiny, in fact, I think it was Senator Mary Seery Kearney of Fine Gael who raised this issue directly because a residents association in the neighbourhood in which she lived and that she had supported had been subject to a threat and legal correspondence around defamation. I think it was a Tidy Towns group out in the southern part of County Dublin.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. There are two things. Again, these are the views that were expressed-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is useful for the Minister of State to hear the issues raised during pre-legislative scrutiny. If the Chair remembers when the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance representatives were in with us, as well as representatives from other groups, they expressed two concerns with regard to this particular provision. One was that it could open a larger group of members of the residents...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----which, in and of itself, could influence their votes in the meeting. Second, where cost protection is not provided, those individual named members either could be or could fear being financially liable for the costs, even though they were good-faith actors and engaged in the process in good faith.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Until we see the full details-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, but until we see the full detail of the cost protection regime and the legal aid system, we will not know the exact operational extent of it. All I am doing is expressing the views that people expressed to the committee, but it seems the Minister of State does not think these are problems at all. On that basis, we will leave the matter there.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Not agreed. I think Deputy O'Callaghan has a question.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister spoke about how someone may be "materially affected by the matter". Is that defined or how is that to be determined?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I presume an individual would not be able to make the case that they might be indirectly affected materially at an environmental level, for example, by pollution or by impact on climate or-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Some people are concerned that this might restrict. However, from what the Minister is saying it is quite an open definition.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: They would be materially affected as per the Minister's understanding of this.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can the Minister give an example of his understanding of somebody who would not be directly or indirectly materially affected?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Hypothetically.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Before we proceed, we said earlier there would be more discussion around costs.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to have a general discussion. That will allow us to get through it more quickly.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: We are trying to get maximum clarity around the two core pillars of the cost regime that the Bill proposes. The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, earlier gave an outline of what is happening in the interdepartmental groups and when the Minister and his Department is meant to report back. The real question many of us have is that there has been a degree of certainty provided by the Heather...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister in a position at this point to give us any indication on the following questions? Who will decide the scale of fees? Will that be a decision of the Government or of a particular Minister? What is the mechanism by which that will be introduced? With respect to the means test, is there any additional information the Minister can give us at this stage as to what that is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: What is the purpose of that? What does it mean?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)
Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise, I am not being in any way being disruptive. Does the £35,000 relate to income or costs?