I move amendment No. 91: In page 52, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(e) Where the Commission makes a decision under this subsection it shall, as soon as possible and not later than 3 working days thereafter, cause the decision and relevant documents to— (i) be published on its internet website, and (ii) be made available for inspection free of charge and purchase by members of the public at a reasonable cost during normal office hours at its offices during such period (which shall not be less th…

I move amendment No. 92: In page 52, line 22, to delete "a relevant" and substitute "any person, including a relevant".

I move amendment No. 93: In page 52, line 30, to delete "a relevant" and substitute "any person, including a relevant".

I move amendment No. 94: In page 52, to delete lines 38 to 41, and in page 53, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: "(c) Upon the payment of such fee as may be approved under section 365 , any person may make a request in writing to the Commission in relation to a development wholly or partly in the outer maritime area, being carried out or proposed to be carried out under this Act or the Act of 2000, for a declaration on the question of—".

I move amendment No. 95: In page 54, to delete lines 16 to 22 and substitute the following: "(c) Where the Commission makes a decision it shall, as soon as possible and not later than 3 working days thereafter, cause the decision and the relevant documents to— (i) be published on its internet website, and (ii) be made available for inspection free of charge and purchase by members of the public at a reasonable cost during normal office hours at its offices during such period as it considers appropriate (which shall…

I move amendment No. 96: In page 54, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: "(j) whether or not the development or proposed development is likely to have significant effect on the use of Irish within a Gaeltacht Language Planning Area (including by virtue of its nature, size and location) and requires the carrying out of a language impact assessment;".

I move amendment No. 97: In page 55, line 25, to delete "not".

I will focus on amendments Nos. 103 to 110, inclusive. They relate to section 13 of the Bill, which deals with licences for appliances and cabling on public roads. Amendments Nos. 103 to 106, inclusive, seek to extend the timeframes within which decisions are made. Amendment No. 107 provides that a proposed grant of permission under subsection 8(b) cannot arise where an environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment is required. The remainder of the amendments, Nos. 108, 109 and 110, relate to appeals. T…

I thank the Minister for his explanations. One issue that came up when we were dealing with section 13 of the Bill on Committee Stage was whether or not mobile phone masts and so on would be able to avail of this provision to, in essence, circumvent planning permission. One legal expert who gave testimony to the committee suggested that this section of the Bill and the related definitions would allow that. I think officials were saying that is not the case. Literally as we are speaking, a story has broken in the Ir…

No, it literally just broke.

Absolutely.

I move amendment No. 103: In page 58, line 24, to delete “8 weeks” and substitute “12 weeks”.

I move amendment No. 104: In page 58, line 26, to delete “4 weeks” and substitute “6 weeks”.

I move amendment No. 105: In page 58, line 36, to delete “8 weeks” and substitute “12 weeks”.

I move amendment No. 106: In page 58, line 37, to delete “4 weeks” and substitute “6 weeks”.

I move amendment No. 107: In page 59, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) , where the licence involves environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment, no deemed grant of permission shall arise where a planning authority fails to make the decision within the periods referred to in paragraph (b) .”.

I move amendment No. 108: In page 59, to delete lines 27 to 40 and substitute the following: “(9) (a) Any person may appeal the decision by a planning authority on an application for a licence, a continuation of a licence, a condition of a licence, or a revocation of a licence under this section to the Commission, not later than 4 weeks from the date of the publication of the decision of the planning authority, and no payment of any fee shall be required for the making of such an appeal unless they are the applican…

I move amendment No. 109: In page 59, to delete lines 27 to 40 and substitute the following: “(9) (a) Any person may appeal the decision by a planning authority of an application for a licence, a continuation of a licence, a condition of a licence, or a revocation of a licence under this section to the Commission, not later than 4 weeks from the date of the publication of the decision of the planning authority.”.

I move amendment No. 110: In page 60, to delete lines 17 to 35 and substitute the following: "(5) (a) The Commission may, upon appeal under this section, affirm, vary or set aside the decision of the planning authority, and may grant the appeal in whole or in part. (b) The Commission may, upon appeal under this section— (i) grant a licence under this section in respect of such period, and upon such conditions (including conditions relating to location and design) as the Commission may specify, (ii) grant a continua…

The delivery of affordable homes to purchase and rent have been two of the most spectacular failures of the Minister's tenure. Last year, he missed his affordable housing targets by more than 60% and the year before by 50%. Increasingly, the homes he is delivering through the affordable purchase and cost-rental schemes are not affordable. Can the Minister give us an update on targets for this year for those two schemes, the progress with those targets and an indication of whether he will meet those targets by year'…