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

I wish to probe the Minister's comments on the regulations. How will "reasonable" be defined in that context and how will it be policed or enforced? If, for example, a matter arises about which a local authority considers it reasonable to request further information, a decision which the regulation seems to conflict with, how will that be managed or adjudicated? There are likely to be circumstances - we have not seen the regulations so we are speculating blindly on this - where a departmental interpretation of the regulations could determine that a planning authority's request for further information is not reasonable because it should have been asked at pre-planning stage. The planning authority might disagree and say that this was not something it reasonably could have considered. How will that be managed? There could potentially be tension, which we would all obviously like to avoid.