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

I fully support the amendment. It is one of the issues I raised when we were dealing with the general strategic housing development legislation last year. One issue I have is that there are good local authorities that try to expedite the meetings for pre-planning as quickly as possible. One of the complaints they often have is that the information they receive from the applicant comes very late. Therefore, the ability for the local authority to have their planners, road planners and whoever else to review the information to make the pre-planning meeting as productive as possible is limited. Is that something the Minister could look at? While it is obviously good to have a time requirement for the local authority, would the Minister be willing to look between now and Report Stage at some kind of requirement for the information to be given to the local authority within that timescale?