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- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 5, 15 and 19 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(e) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations for consideration by the planning authority to ensure compliance with the State’s obligations under the Aarhus Convention and the principles of good planning and development.”. I want to make a...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 20; Níl, 131; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Conor Sheehan and Duncan Smith; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Tá Ciarán Ahern, Ivana Bacik, Catherine Connolly, Jen Cummins, Aidan Farrelly, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Rory Hearne, Alan Kelly, Eoghan Kenny, Gerald Nash, Cian O'Callaghan, Robert O'Donoghue, Liam Quaide, Pádraig Rice, Conor Sheehan, Marie Sherlock, Duncan Smith, Mark Wall, Jennifer Whitmore.Níl William Aird, Catherine Ardagh, Cathy Bennett, Grace Boland, Tom...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Amendment declared lost.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: Obviously, the amount of time given will be up to the Business Committee, but I have no difficulty with substantial time being given for it.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Question put and agreed to.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Sections 6 to 12, inclusive, agreed to.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
NEW SECTION
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Amendment No. 2 is in the name of Deputy Sheehan. Amendments Nos. 2 and 9 are related and will be discussed together.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 177 of Principal Act 13. Section 177 of the Principal Act (“Duration of permission granted under Part”) is amended by the substitution of “3 years” for “5 years” in each place where it occurs.”. This was submitted as one...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: I will address amendments Nos. 2 and 9 as tabled. Amendment No. 2 seeks to reduce the standard duration of a permission in the Act of 2024 from five years down to three years, while amendment No. 9 seeks to make the same amendment in respect of the 2000 Act. I cannot accept these amendments. The purpose of having a specified period for a planning permission to act upon is to balance the...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I brought forward these amendments because they relate to the whole issue of use it or lose it, namely, the issue of duration of planning permissions. While I accept what the Minister is doing in terms of existing planning permissions that have commenced, I believe we need a tighter regime around duration of planning. We are seeking to reduce the normal duration of a planning permission...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Michael Collins: Reducing the length of time with regard to a planning permission might be okay with the large developments but I would be very concerned about the one-off housing. A lot of people might apply for planning but may not have the money to get started, especially with the price of materials at the moment. I refer to one-off housing in rural Ireland. I have often met people, as we all do in our...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. I understand where both Deputies are coming from. Having examined it, there are some challenges around shortening the period. I understand the Deputies' intention. However, when we look at the necessity for bigger projects to secure finance, deal with compliance and complete the development, the five-year period is a more balanced approach to...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Is Deputy Sheehan pressing the amendment?
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: Yes.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, agreed to.