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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...320 applies that was carried out more than 7 years before the commencement of this subsection. Subsection (3) of section 320 refers to: ... unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction development in any of the following circumstances: (a) where no permission for the development has been granted and the development commenced after 15 November 2004; (b) where...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ..., but it is very specific because it does not refer to all draft directions. It is a very specific set of draft directions that only have regard to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction. If it is a standard provision why does it not apply to everything? The Bill is very specifically just putting this provision in with regard to unauthorised quarry development...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I want to know why the "remedial measures" from section 130(8) are specific to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...to section 320(3). Otherwise the former would just link to time limits in general. Why is there this specific seven-year period in relation to unauthorised quarry development or unauthorised peat extraction?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Remediation of unauthorised quarries and unauthorised peat extraction is very important in terms of environmental damage. It can be very difficult to remediate depending on the level of damage done. The concern is about a provision in the Bill that would prevent remedial action being required under section 130 if section 130(8) applies to it. Why have this prohibition? Why not at least...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...sort of environmental re-balancing in terms of biodiversity, water tables, etc. That does not necessarily mean that you simply do a full remediation and fill in the quarry. Likewise, unauthorised peat extraction does not mean you come along and restore the entire peat that has been extracted-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...not just abstract issues. Because of the way that quarries have not been regularised or authorised for so many years, with all of the issues around that, these are highly contested areas, as is peat extraction, as the Minister knows also. I will leave it at that.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but there is no seven years before the commencement of the subsection applying to that. For unauthorised quarries and peat extraction, an enforcement notice which issues is not subjected-----

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Despite Government strategies specifically aimed at tackling energy poverty, barriers to accessing grants persist, especially for low-income households. These are the households that are most likely to use solid fuels such as coal and peat but policies have often sidelined these very households, those that need the most support. The upfront costs associated with accessing sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there has been an environmental assessment carried out on the importation of peat; if not, if he will conduct one; if so, if he will publish the details of the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52101/21]