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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: Just to be clear, is that subsection (d) saying that any request for an extension of duration would be seen as material-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. That is just for clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the purposes of clarification, given that lots of other timelines are set out in the legislation, why by regulation here and for what type of timelines? This is just out of interest more than anything else.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies. I thought the Minister said in his previous comment that the change to "may be prescribed" would be by way of regulation. Is the Minister saying it is by regulation or by other sections of this Bill by way of primary legislation or both?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: So my question is still the same. For example, some of the statutory timelines, whether they apply to the commission or elsewhere, are actually set out in the legislation. I am trying to understand-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I am not arguing against it; my query is just for clarity.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I should say that I am not arguing against it yet.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Whereas with standard applications the timeline will be set out in statute, for material alterations they could be different times.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume there would be consultation with the board with respect to those timelines.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This relates to extensions as well as alterations, if I am correct. There is a fairly significant Celtic-tiger era development in my constituency. The developer fell into financial difficulty after having completed only one third of the development and then got stuck in terms of inability to complete the development. The developer went into receivership and a receiver took over. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

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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: I believe the timelines are one of the important bits of this process. Will there be any public consultation before the Minister decides those timelines or will that be negotiated with the commission and then published?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The opening line of subsection (3) states the commission "may" request. Is there a reason it is not "shall", given the nature of it? Are there circumstances where there would not be a need?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There may not be a need.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This might be a very unfair question but for those of us who do not think in hundreds of thousands of tonnes, what kind of scale of surface water, lake or weir would this involve?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is very large. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What exactly does the amendment do?