Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief regarding where we stand on this legislation. We have supported it so far and we will continue to support it. We have reservations about the percentage and Deputy Darragh O'Brien has outlined these to Deputy Ó Broin. We are concerned about trying to apply the legislation retrospectively to existing permissions. We have just approved our regional and national plans and all our county development plans now have to fall into line with this. It provides an opportunity in the review of all of our county development plans to take this type of legislation into account so that there can be no ambiguity about it. It is clearly on the line there. We have always supported the 20%. We introduced it originally. We stand over that and have been looking for it. We are concerned about the percentages that Deputy Ó Broin is looking for but we are willing to work with him on it.