Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think that if the logic is that the legislation will never be used, why are we bothering to change it?

I think we have to view the Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018 in the context of compulsory purchase orders operating without sufficient scrutiny or oversight and that was very much indicative of what happened in the CPO incident in Wicklow County Council. The lands were purchased under a CPO, which involved in part IDA lands. There are still substantial questions to be answered in that regard as to how Wicklow County Council could seek to purchase land with a compulsory purchase order and pay more than €3 million and yet nine years later, the land is not in the name of the council. How could land be in the names of developers, Quinn and Mulryan, when there was no notice of disposal before the members of Wicklow County Council, which is a statutory body? It is in the context of questions on the lack of scrutiny with the compulsory purchase orders powers that I have a considerable concern about this legislation. I know that people are under pressure today and perhaps we can deal with some of those points on Report Stage.