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

The problem with this is that it seems to replicate the procedure that was put in place for strategic housing developments, whereby a separate, stand-alone website by the applicant is hosted. One of the difficulties with those websites is, of course, that they expire, and, therefore, they do not have the longevity that, for example, the board's website or a local authority's website has. The value of this amendment is that it would all be centralised on the board's website, although I accept that there would be links on the board's website. When that private sector website closes - and it will close - the link on the board's website will close. Therefore, there should be some way of it being stored on the board's website. While I know the Minister of State will not accept the amendment, I ask him to examine that. For example, I had reason to go back to my local authority just to get the history of records for an SHD that had been approved in 2018. The difficulty is that none of those records are online any more and I now have to try to get them manually. The Minister of State's provisions are not satisfactory. If he could at least consider the intention behind this amendment and come back on Report Stage with some alterations to his own proposal, that could be helpful.