Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the one hand, the entire purpose of this Bill is to do away with amendment after amendment to our planning and development law. We are meant to get a single consolidated item of legislation that planning professionals can work with. Yet, here is another example where we are being told it actually will not be in this Bill but will be in subsequent regulations or might even be in subsequent legislation. It defeats the purpose of asking the Minister of State’s much-beleaguered officials to spend all this time in producing a consolidated Bill when already, the list of future amendments to this Bill by way of primary and secondary legislation is growing exponentially.

Second, the argument that section 46(2)(b) is balanced and addresses the problem just shows-----