Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Discussion
2:25 pm
Denis Landy (Labour) | Oireachtas source
No, but I take Mr. Keating's point. We do not want everything to end up with An Bord Pleanála. We want to avoid this because it would leave everything in abeyance. That is the idea in bringing this forward. I am asking for the delegates' views on how we can get around this. I am talking about the default position being the opportunity for each local authority to go to the relevant Minister and say, "This is not workable in our area because...". We are at scrutiny level and I do not know whether that would be feasible, but that is the point I am making.
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