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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: The Minister of State can address all those amendments together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Will the Minister of State repeat his response on amendment No. 626?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On amendment No. 626, I think that may have been entered in error during the drafting process. I agree wholeheartedly with the Minister of State on the matter and will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I would like to hear the Minister of State's response to my amendment No. 692.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: We have not reached amendment No. 695.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, I will not move amendment No. 692.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There is an angle to this. Like Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin, I have experienced this in the context of assisting people making observations on a planning application, and for myself. There is no doubt there are significant delays and that the scanning can be of poor quality. In essence, we are getting an electronic system outputting a printed format. We are then scanning the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 664: In page 219, line 34, after “section 95” to insert “and subject to the limitations set out in associated regulations”. All three amendments arise from engagement with Irish Water in advance of the amendment stage of the Bill and there is a concern. Obviously the premise of the Bill is about advancing the delivery of infrastructure,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: This section was of particular concern to Uisce Éireann representatives because they felt that one of the few elements of the planning system that works well is their engagement with local authorities with regard to applications for infrastructure. There is certainty and there are solid timelines. Their fear - perhaps it is a misreading of the Bill on their behalf - is a concern worth...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: It would be interesting to know why, given the focus of the Bill, we felt the need to so radically reform this section, this process. As I said, it is not an area of the planning system that would appear to add to the overall delays. In fact, the new process may actually lead to further delays. Does the Minister accept that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There definitely needs to be more engagement with some of the utility companies on it because-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I know from the engagement - I am looking at my notes here - that their concern is that it essentially adds more time at this stage, and I think-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: On that basis, Chair, I am happy to withdraw the amendments. I will refer to that when we come to them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I will withdraw this amendment on the basis of the discussion and with the view to revisiting the issue on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 665: In page 219, line 37, to delete “Where” and substitute “In exceptional circumstances, where”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 667: In page 220, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(5) The Minister may by regulations provide for such situations where exceptional circumstances arise, either generally or with reference to any particular category of development scheme appeals, where it appears to him or her to be necessary, by virtue of exceptional circumstances, to do so...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: We are trying to balance the desire for longer-term planning with the ability of, in particular, new councillors who might be elected in the second half of a development plan to have an input. There is also the question of the very necessary change in how a community might develop. I do not think it is unreasonable to suggest that a councillor, rather than just the chief executive, might be...