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

I thank the Chairman for his patience. I have three outstanding questions from the original list of ten and I will rattle through them quickly.

In subsection 14 of head 6, where a person should not question the validity of any action taken or opinion from a planning authority, what does “not to question” mean in plain English? Obviously there is a very specific intent in that and I ask for that to be explained.

Similarly on head 12, where it talks about exclusion from entitlement to compensation, for clarity could I have a couple of real-world examples of what that might look like?

The one-year gap between the outcome of the preplanning and the submission of the planning application itself seems very long. What is the rationale for that length of time given that in the intervening period, other people may come in with other applications and construction may commence that could be materially relevant to the final application? I would have thought that three or six months would be logical. If this is about streamlining the process, why are we giving an applicant a year? I am sure there is a reasonable amount of time but 12 months seems very long indeed.