Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will do that. One additional point struck me while getting ready for this. There may be a policy reason why it makes sense. We need to be careful about amending part of a by-law or regulation. I offer one example. Let us consider this purely in a transport setting. One of the things that we know about transport or parking policy is that if we change something in one area, it always has a consequence somewhere else. A relevant example might be a parking by-law. If we change something in one part of a town, it almost always has a consequence in another part of the town. I imagine Deputy Murphy recognises that with parking in particular. This is why from a policy point of view it may make sense to only proceed with this in terms of looking at an entire by-law. If we try to do something in isolation it may have consequences that we have not anticipated. That being said, our understanding as a result of preparing a response to this amendment is that the power exists.

I will certainly pass on the request to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.