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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024): Steven Matthews: ...No. 529 is in multiple names and all Deputies are present. I will ask those Deputies to speak about amendment No. 529 and the Minister of State may speak about amendment No. 500, although Deputy Cowen is not here to speak to it.
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024): Steven Matthews: I ask the Minister of State to respond on amendment No. 500. We have not touched on it yet. It is in the name of Deputy Cowen. We need to discuss it because it is in this grouping.
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023): Steven Matthews: ...that had many recommendations. One matter I raised was about what is called a "one stop shop" to try to streamline matters. The Minister will be familiar with this because his colleague, Deputy Cowen, introduced a Bill in, I believe, 2017 and I extracted quite a few parts from his Bill for my own Private Members' Business on the same matter. Are steps being taken to simplify that...

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