Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I have the floor, thank you, Minister. These amendments are based on and come straight out of Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012, and they are looking for consistency with the definitions in that Act. I do not understand the Minister saying he has issues with the definitions when he has clarified he does not have issues with the definitions in the Act. If he could explain that more, that would be helpful.

If national planning statements are the answer to this, why do we have the other provisions in the legislation around preparation of development plans and the things they need to be consistent with? Why is that not all going to be taken care of in the national planning statements if that is the correct place?

The Minister says my amendments are too prescriptive, but the only thing they are trying to prescribe is that development plans are consistent with language plans. By saying they are too prescriptive, the Minister implies he is against development plans being consistent with language plans.