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

I move amendment No. 145:

In page 35, after line 38, to insert the following: “50.The Land Development Agency shall be subject to the City or County Development Plan, the Local Area Plan, and any other statutory plans or bye-laws made by the local authority in relation to any land which it proposes to develop and including the making of a masterplan for such land.”.

Amendment No. 145 is a new section. This is also an amendment that has been tabled by the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG. Other than the amendment that the Minister has just tabled, which correctly dealt with that issue, we have not agreed any of the other AILG amendments to date. One has been referred back and it is important for us to emphasis that this organisation represents the vast majority of our elected councillors from all political parties and none. When it is asking the committee to consider amendments to legislation that affects their area of responsibility, we should take those amendments seriously.

This is a straightforward amendment. It is trying to reassert the primacy of the city and county development plans, the local area plans and other statutory plans and byelaws because they are fundamental to good place making and plan making, which have a democratic legitimacy because they are approved by elected members after lengthy statutory processes. On that basis, I was more than happy to submit and move this amendment by AILG.

Does the Chairman want the Minister to respond to each of the amendments in this group in turn or will I rattle through the other amendments?