Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 50:

In page 38, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“(c) is failing to achieve a desirable level of compliance with planning law in its area through the exercise of its enforcement functions in Part VIII,”.

To a certain extent this relates back to what I was discussing earlier regarding the different performances of local authorities in the implementation of Part VIII. It is phrased in terms of results. We are not seeking to review specific individual applications but to provide a general provision for a higher test so that if the Minister is of the opinion that Part VIII is being applied inappropriately, there is a mechanism for overviewing it. To return to the point I made earlier, it is an area where we believe local authorities must be held to greater accountability in terms of how they act in the planning system.