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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...puts in a complaint but the house is there. The people broke the rules, knowingly or unknowingly, but the house is there. We could have had ten years of very significant illegal quarrying or peat harvesting activity with very significant environmental impacts and if no remediation action is taken those negative impacts could accelerate and deteriorate. To have such a blanket prohibition...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: However, what section 130(8) does, notwithstanding the fact people can do that and stop the illegal quarrying or peat harvesting, is ensure people are not allowed take action. The key words are "shall not require the taking of remedial [action]". On the one hand, therefore, we are saying there is a tougher enforcement regime because people can go back seven years, but even when they stop...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...what can be in the enforcement notice, including restoration of land or maritime sites. However, when you read section 130(8) against that, you can see that there is an exception for a quarry or peat extraction site. Here, where the unauthorised development is more than seven years old, no remedial measures can be in that enforcement notice. Does section 130(8) not prohibit remedial...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...for new development to be rolled into a substitute consent development. Some of us opposed it very strongly. This is particularly the case, for example, sometimes regarding unauthorised peat farms and unauthorised quarries, etc. Perhaps the Minister of State could ask the officials to clarify whether - I offer my apologies, because it is late and I am jumping between three different...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...if the Minister's colleague in his concluding remarks and the officials in Monday's briefing would elaborate on this. For example, is substitute consent required for An Bord Pleanála or other peat harvesting? It is not so much for the continuation of peat harvesting, which will not be permissible due to environmental impacts, but there could be infrastructure related to those kinds...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering exempting peat extraction from the planning system for new developments and the substitute consent process for unauthorised developments; if so, the reason for considering such a move; the timeframe for a decision on this matter; and if such a move would be compliant with EU environmental law. [51326/21]