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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Introduced
- 2 Jul 2025
- Last updated
- 28 Jul 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Allows housing developments with less than 2 years of permission remaining to get 3-year extensions if applied for within 6 months; work must start within 18 months or extension lapses.
- Extends judicial review pause for planning permissions from the 2024 Act to older 2000 Act permissions, allowing retrospective suspension claims if development didn't substantially commence during review.
- Permits development plan and local area plan variations started under the 2000 Act to continue under that Act despite its repeal, ensuring smooth transition during phased commencement of 2024 Act.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage34th Dáil2 Jul 2025
- Second Stage34th Dáil2 Jul 2025
- Committee Stage34th Dáil8 Jul 2025
- Report Stage34th Dáil9 Jul 2025
- Fifth Stage34th Dáil9 Jul 2025
- Second Stage27th Seanad9 Jul 2025
- Committee Stage27th Seanad10 Jul 2025
- Report Stage27th Seanad15 Jul 2025
- Fifth Stage27th Seanad15 Jul 2025
- Cream List34th Dáil16 Jul 2025
- Enacted23 Jul 2025
Debates
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