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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 645: In page 212, lines 4 and 5, to delete “(either individually or in combination with other plans or projects within the meaning of the Habitats Directive)”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 646: In page 212, line 9, to delete “retention” and substitute “retention permission”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for introducing the amendment. I will speak to amendments Nos. 648 and 649 together. I understand the rationale for them but we want to make sure, as the Deputy mentioned, there is also access for applicants. I will explain the rationale as to why I will not accept either of these amendments. The Deputy explained what he wishes to do with regard to when an application...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: It is a useful discussion and gives an opportunity to provide an update on the roll-out of e-planning. I will get specific details but speak now in broader terms for the information of Deputies. There are approximately 25 or 26 local authorities now operating e-planning. Fingal County Council, Deputy O'Callaghan's area, opened that up in the past week or so. I turn to the issue of a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I did respond, but I will respond again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: No, not really. I will explain it again. You could effectively have two different timeframes. A planning application is a planning application, whether it is made online or in paper format. The Cathaoirleach is saying that you would only start the clock on public consultation once the documents have been uploaded. That matter will be dealt with, because the applications on which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes. There might be some approximations. There might be one or two outliers because the systems are only being rolled out.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I do not have that stat.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: On the e-planning system, when someone makes an application – I know Deputy Ó Broin wants to come in on this – the issue Deputy raised continues to be an issue in some areas where councils council scan documents to put them up online in order that people can access them. When people apply through the e-planning system, they are driven with the data fields to put the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 650 relates to the procedural powers of a planning authority under section 94. It would add a requirement for planning authorities to notify any person who made a submission on an application when additional material is received. The Bill already contains public notification procedures. Those are sufficient in this regard. I do not believe there is a requirement for what is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: We will just get this double-checked for the Cathaoirleach. If you are a party to an application and have made an observation on a planning application and additional information is sought, you will be advised of the latter. If there is a further material change– I have seen this happen, and it is under current procedures as well – that is deemed by a planning authority to be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, on the decision. We will get clarity on this. If you made an observation and additional information is sought, you are advised that additional information has been sought.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, as long you made the original observation and you are a party to that file.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If unsolicited information was sent in that was not sought by a planning authority, it is unlikely that would be accepted. In that instance, however, no. The only time someone would submit further information in respect of a file would be either on receipt of a request for additional information or a clarification regarding additional information. There is an existing provision in this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Where a planning authority decides that an environmental impact assessment is insufficient and requires additional information, the person who made the submission to that planning authority will be advised that additional information has been sought. It is then up to the person who made the submission to follow that it has been submitted and to view it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 651: In page 214, line 1, before “the public” to insert “that”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 653: In page 215, to delete lines 4 to 7 and substitute the following: “(i) the date of the commencement of the part of the proposed development to which that aspect relates, or”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 654: In page 215, lines 22 and 23, to delete “UDZ scheme or SDZ scheme,” and substitute “development scheme or planning scheme, or any planning scheme under Part IX of the Act of 2000,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 655: In page 215, line 27, to delete “UDZ scheme or SDZ scheme,” and substitute “development scheme or planning scheme, or any planning scheme under Part IX of the Act of 2000,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 656: In page 215, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(6) (a) Where a planning authority grants permission for a development comprising or for the purposes of the harnessing of wind power for energy production and an offer has not yet been made pursuant to subsection (1) of section 34 of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 for the connection of...

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