Joe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)
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600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has made on including 'meanwhile use' as an exempted development under the Planning and Development - Exempted Development Regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/25]

Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to bring forward planning proposals in relation to facilitating the construction of habitable accommodation on garden sites. [17321/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 600 and 636 together.

Whilst the Planning and Development Act 2024 was enacted in October 2024, it is not yet commenced and the provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended and associated Planning and Development Regulations 2001 remain in force.

A review of the current Exempted Development Regulations is ongoing and engagement with Government Bodies is due to be completed in the coming weeks. Following this a wider public consultation on exempted development regulations will be undertaken. Members of the public, State bodies and other concerned parties will be able to make submissions in writing as part of the consultation process.

The Government cannot pre-empt the outcome of any consultation and therefore no decision has been made in respect of any revisions to current exempted development provisions; this includes exemptions for meanwhile use and for domestic structures in residential gardens. Any update to Exempted Development Regulations will require positive resolutions by both Houses of the Oireachtas before it can be signed into law.