Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What we are doing is future-proofing it. I do not see the development plans that are being put together now right across the country and the mix within different zones, be that major town centre zones or mixed use zones, which is a matter for the local authorities, being in conflict. This relates to future applications through the LRD process. We would be saying that, at maximum, 30% of a use threshold would be that. It would be 70% minimum residential. The rest is varied within it. We would not be going past that.

On Deputy Paul Murphy's point, any future Government could do anything with any legislation. Equally, any member of the Opposition could also do that. This is the best approach right now. We are returning to the local authorities, and rightly so, decisions on these large important developments that most of us want to see delivered. We want to see homes for our people and good planning and good developments that are affordable for people to buy to live in and to rent in. That is what we want. This is appropriate to where we are right now. It is about future-proofing the process for new applications and getting this planning back to our local authorities. That is why we want to have the new regulations up and running by 17 December. Unfortunately, I cannot accept amendments Nos. 2 or 4.