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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: I move amendment No. 1136: In page 632, line 26, to delete “director” and substitute “stiúrthóir”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1138: In page 633, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(e) becomes a member of the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1139: In page 634, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(d) becomes a member of the Board of Údarás na Gaeltachta,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 1144: In page 648, line 25, after “fees” to insert “on a full cost recovery basis”. This is my final amendment and is the last chance for the Minister to be generous in this eight-week long saga.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Probably better to.

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: -----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: If you think about it, we have been in the basement for approximately 120 hours. There have been more than 1,000 amendments and 500 sections. Like the Minister and Chair, I want to first thank all the secretariat and Oireachtas staff. I thank the ushers who carried the Minister’s boxes in and out of the rooms outside, the broadcast staff, the transcription staff and the Bills Office...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions on the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions. The first is about section 169(2). It is a broad set of regulatory provisions. Is that just a crossover from the existing legislation or is there anything new there? With respect to 169(2)(i) and (ii), it is interesting that it talks about providing for the waiving or reduction of a fee to which subparagraph (i) refers-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. It is at the very top of page 309. It talks about waiving or reducing fees. We had a very interesting discussion yesterday, particularly about waivers.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that could be used in the context of waivers to ensure people on lower incomes, for example, would be able to participate and there would not be a bar. Is it for some other kind of waiver? Will the Minister just explain it?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Are any waivers currently in place or is it just a provision that has been there before?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: More specifically, section 169(2) is a list of all the various areas where regulations can be introduced in relation to the previous section. Is there anything specifically new in here?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It looks like it is all a carryover.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is a very important part of the legislation. There seems to be very little change, if any, in this section and Part of the Bill compared with what was there previously. If I am wrong, I ask the Minister of State to correct me, but it seems to be broadly a transposition. I am speaking specifically to amendment No. 895 but this is also supportive of the points Deputy O'Callaghan has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am reading the definition of "house" on page 30 to try to cast my mind back. I will go back to my principal point and then follow up on Deputy O'Callaghan's amendment No. 897. I apologise for forcing the Minister of State to repeat himself a bit but I want to emphasise the point around the HNDA because this is a really significant thing. Section 219(4)(a) states that a housing strategy...