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

Steven Matthews: -----because we are going back on a discussion we had already.

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

Steven Matthews: You have the floor but I ask you to please honour your commitment to be brief.

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

Steven Matthews: I do not think it is a waste to get clarification and to make sure the rules are applied equally to everybody. I ask the Deputy to please be brief.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I suggest we discuss amendments Nos. 902 and 904 very-----

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

Steven Matthews: Sorry, yes.

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

Steven Matthews: We have not come to amendment No. 907 yet. We were just taking amendment No. 909 because it was-----

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

Steven Matthews: Yes.

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

Steven Matthews: We are back at 6 p.m.

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

Steven Matthews: If the Deputy wishes, he may ask for the Minister of State's response to one of them. That will satisfy it having been discussed. The Deputy could then do an amendment on Report Stage. We will accommodate that.

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

Steven Matthews: I am clarifying that it is amendment No. 907 the Deputy will speak to.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett. Does the Minister of State wish to read a response to amendment No. 907? I will suspend proceedings when he has done so.

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

Steven Matthews: We can cover amendments Nos. 907 and 909.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. I will now suspend proceedings, as we have reached the time for doing so. I have to give people the chance to take a break and have dinner. We will be back here at 6 p.m. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance and engagement today.

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

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins. We are discussing the group of amendments starting with No. 891. Deputy O'Callaghan wishes to respond to the previous contribution on amendment No. 909 by the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State.

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

Steven Matthews: I think we gave them good airing under various sections.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy Boyd Barrett wanted his grouping of Nos. 913 to 917, inclusive, to be addressed. If the Minister of State wishes like to read the note on amendment Nos. 914, 916 and 917, he may do so.

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

Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin will speak to amendments Nos. 902 and 904. Deputy Duffy is withdrawing his amendments Nos. 902 and 904 but they are similar to Deputy Ó Broin's.

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. We had a good long discussion about this on a previous section as well. We covered a lot of that. Is amendment No. 906, in the name of Deputy O'Callaghan, a standalone amendment?

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

Steven Matthews: I thank the Minister of State. Deputy Ó Broin does want to come in on this point as well, but does Deputy O'Callaghan want to contribute further?