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

The second part of the question is whether the Minister of State can give reassurance that, having removed landscape conservation areas from the development plan process, consideration of the same thing by another name will even feature in the process? Given that so many other things are going on in a development plan, if it is not a requirement of the legislation, how will it feature? How will we ensure it does not get lost and go from being a seldom-used feature to a never-used feature?