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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: And 471.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendments Nos. 459, 460 and 471 concern additions or deletions to the record of protected structures as part of the draft development plan process. Amendment No. 459 seeks to amend subsection (4) of section 53, which currently requires that where a draft development plan proposes additions to or deletions from the record of protected structures of particular structures, parts thereof or...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes. It has merit.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes, I am advised that it is.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Basically, these amendments are similar to amendment No. 450 and we will look at them in the same context, with a view to regulation.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public record because it is a public decision of the planning authority.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public document, yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: It is a public document.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: An elected member at a meeting sitting in public session is entitled to make his or her contribution in the normal course of events, similar to any other issue on the agenda. As regards what the Deputy is getting at here, though, I think the member would need to have made a separate written submission.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: I do not think verbal works.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: No.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: No. The planning authority receives the submissions and the chief executive officer prepares his or her report, summarises the submissions and makes a recommendation regarding the written submissions received. As is normal with standing orders of local authorities, agendas are drawn up and circulated. The chief executive officer's report is also circulated. Members have an opportunity to...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 477 relates to section 54 and the interim report on the implementation of the development plan to be provided by the chief executive of a planning authority to its elected members. The amendment seeks to insert a new subsection to require that the chief executive must consult the elected members, prescribed bodies and the public on the content of an interim implementation...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: We want to see the plans implemented and not be in a constant rolling process of making and creating plans. It says that the chief executive will review implementation not earlier than four years but not later than five years. It will start in year four. Similarly, both Deputies will be well aware that it is open to the members of the local authority to make a variation to their own plan...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: There is also an annual local authority report.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: I thank Deputy Matthews. There is merit in what he says and in the requirement, so we would like to review and consider the matter further, particularly with regard to whether there are any practical ramifications that may result from its inclusion which could inadvertently undermine the basis of a particular development plan. If appropriate, we will bring back an amendment on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Niall Collins: Amendment No. 501 concerns section 60 and the new procedure enabling the timely variation of a development plan to make it materially consistent with a new or amended national planning statement where the Office of the Planning Regulator has informed the planning authority under section 59 that it is satisfied with the steps proposed by the planning authority. In this context, the chief...