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

I wish to speak against amendment No.128 and in favour of my own amendment No. 130. I fully support the Minister here. While I was on South Dublin County Council we always took our housing Part VIII applications very quickly. I remember the first Part VIII I was involved in was a cycle path, the application for which had been dragging on completely unnecessarily for two years because councillors did not want to take a decision. Putting a timeline of six weeks on councillors to take decisions is very welcome. My concern is a wording issue where it says that the resolution has to be adopted by a majority of the members of the local authority. My worry is whether that would be interpreted as meaning a majority of all the members of the local authority rather then the members of the local authority who are present at the meeting, which clearly is not an intended consequence of the wording. I am not suggesting that my amendment fixes that-----