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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...has been quite good. I hope we can continue in that vein. We have a good deal of voting coming up. I urge members to attend and be present for votes. If they are not present, it takes a long time to get through votes, notwithstanding the right of any member to call a vote. I do not want to stymie the latter in any way. We have been working quite collegiately and well. Many of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...applications do not reflect the significant amount of work that goes in at local authority level, the complexity and the time that is taken up by local authorities in trying to assess complex and long applications. There are many aspects of development that involve a much higher cost. In respect of those involved in planning, we should apply a similar value to the time that local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...on the ground but we could make it a little less opaque than it is the moment. As with property tax, most of the people I speak to about it say, "You know what, I do not mind the property tax as long as I know where it is being spent". The development contribution fee is helpful for communities experiencing development and housing growth, which is a good thing, and it would be good for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...from a local authority, those involved would have said stated that one of the things required is some method of tracking developers through DACs. The Law Reform Commission recommend this as long ago as 1977. It is not as if it is a new issue. My other questions relate to section 160(6), (7) and (8). This is a query rather than a challenge. There is no provision in this section for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., if not front-loaded. Some should be front-loaded with the first significant amount of housing. That is the way communities are built. Some larger developments are built out over such a long period, such that there are children who are not even born when the first phase is being built, that it results in the delivery of amenities being late and their provision sometimes getting timed...