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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)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(b) an explanation as to why the development has not yet commenced, a viability assessment setting out what has changed that would allow the development to commence if an extension of duration is granted, and a detailed schedule of works setting out when the various stages of development will...
- 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)
Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 12: In page 13, line 3, to delete “2 years” and substitute “1 year”.
- 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)
Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, line 11, to delete “5 years” and substitute “3 years”.
- 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)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 14: "In page 13, line 25, to delete “18 months” and substitute “6 months”."
- 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)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 15: In page 13, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(h) The Minister may, by way of regulations, provide for third party observations to the planning authority on any request for an extension of duration under this section. The regulations may include provision for: (i) the publication of public notices, on site, in newspapers and on digital...
- 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)
Section 16 agreed to.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Section 17 agreed to.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
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- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 16 and 17 are related and will be discussed together.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on planning permissions and residential units 18. Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report detailing the number of planning permissions and residential units to which section 14 of this Act may apply and making...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Rory Hearne: I am very conscious of time. I want to support this amendment and reiterate the deep concern we have been highlighting around the speculative development that is happening. It is very clear to anyone who studies the real estate and property market that there are actors in it who are not just about building homes. A part of real estate development is accumulating sites and planning...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Conor Sheehan: I support this amendment. It is extremely important because we know that, with the development levy waivers that lapsed last year, a lot of the commencement data we have at the moment is very unreliable. That is why this amendment is important.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
Thomas Gould: Reporting mechanisms, collection of data, transparency and knowing what is happening are at the heart of this motion. We have to ensure that genuine actors who want to develop and deliver units - houses and apartments - can do that with support, but we also have to prevent people coming in to speculate. By collecting this data, we will all know what is happening, as will the public. That...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)
James Browne: In regard to ensuring the extensions are not sought for speculative purposes, the extension of duration provisions are time-bound and cease to have effect if the development has not commenced within 18 months of the coming into operation of the provision. The fact the extension ceases to have operation or effect if the development is not commenced should deter speculative applications. ...