Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his commentary. I am divided on this. From working in my area of the city in the past 20 years, I have seen multiple planning applications . They contain layer upon layer. I have experience in this so I can read through these things and organise them, but if you are going to get blank planning applications that are not going through, it will seriously confuse people. If you look at the area in south Dublin that I live in, so many applications have gone in over the past 20 years. If five, six, seven or eight applications are added in that do not go anywhere, that will make matters more complicated in a development area of large scale where applications are amended and where stuff gets changed. I will withdraw my amendments. I would err on the side of where the Bill is.