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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: It will save a few weeks.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. I asked two questions. How much time will this save overall? The Minister of State said the removal of the leave stage will save weeks. JRs can take a year or 18 months to two years. They are very slow, although it is to be hoped they will speed up. Is the Minister of State saying there is no assessment of how much time on average these proposed changes are likely to save? I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To the section. Sure.

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 do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: To respond to the Chair, if the Government's defence of this legislation is that it will speed up the process and save time, one would imagine the Government or officials have some kind of analysis of how much time might be saved or how much it will speed it up by-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----even within a range.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of the discussion Deputy O'Callaghan and I were trying to have with the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, on whether an analysis was underpinning this, the Minister of State is essentially confirming that there is no analysis of the actual amount of time it is likely to save. There is a hope that this will do something, but no actual assessment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: How do you know that if there is no analysis stating what it potentially could save time-wise?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will the Minister of State stick to these reforms in these sections?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We have no idea how much time it will save.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: We do not know. It might not save any time, other than maybe a few weeks.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Other than a few weeks. That is the only certainty the Minister of State has.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is not the question. The planning court is separate. That is a resource issue, which we support in that we would like to see more resources. We agree on that. The Minister of State has set out that getting rid of the leave stage will save some weeks. In terms of the rest of the change, however, some weeks will not cut it for people who are stuck in a JR. The Minister of State is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay. Will the Minister of State give any further clarity on the cost regime, other than there is a group working on it, and the Minister is to report back in three months?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Apologies. We will deal with that when we get to the section. I am happy to do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The three amendments are really interrelated

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: For the record, what this does is substitute the equivalent of section 50A of the existing Planning and Development Act after the insertion of the equivalent of section 50. It does not carry forward some of the concerning requirements with respect to undertakings. Again, that is something we dealt with dealt with in a previous amendment, which should not be controversial as the Bill deals...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am good.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Then we are in the same position. The Minister of State is saying this can only be positive but he has no idea what it is. How can he come to the committee and say this can only be positive from the point of view of environmental and non-governmental organisations when he does not actually know what is being proposed? That is the fundamental problem. It is important that we disentangle...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: There will also be separate legislation from another Government Department that the Minister of State has no sight of because it has not been written.