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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...a waste licence vest in the Environmental Protection Agency. The Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management Act 1996 already adequately and in more detail provide that the EPA is responsible for controlling emissions for licensed activities and that the control of emissions should not be a matter for planning conditions. As such, there is no need for this provision...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., the planning authority and commission shall have regard to a list of circumstances and agencies. If I understand it right, the Minister seems to be suggesting that, because licences from the EPA would be required for such facilities, there is no need to replicate that condition in the planning permission. However, they are two separate things. One is a permission for use or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: This was the clear advice of the OPC in consultation with the Attorney General's office. Legal codes need to stay separate. We got very firm advice that there should be no crossover. That is the reason for the amendment to delete the section. It is already well covered under the two Acts that have already gone through, the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Waste Management...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...or observations by other competent authorities. It seems strange to me. Is the position that, if I put in a planning application for a facility that will be licensed under the authority of the EPA, the planning authority cannot comment on or apply conditions relating to the use or development of the premises even though licensing is a separate matter?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...I do not have that information to hand and we are checking now. I said in response to Deputy Ó Broin's intervention that planning permission and permissions granted relate to use. Emissions are separate and are matters for licensing. Take, for example, a wastewater treatment plant, for argument's sake. Considerations in that regard include the capacity and what is allowed by the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The phrase used is not "shall have regard to". It shall have regard to the fact that these functions are vested in the EPA.