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

It is to do with the national planning statements. The intention is for that power to replace what we currently understand as the section 28 ministerial guidelines. That new planning statement provision also then interacts with sections 62 and 120. When a Minister, for example, introduces a planning statement, there is a procedure for a fast-track to change the development plan and a procedure for permitting material contraventions of decisions by a planning authority or the board. Could Mr. Hogan explain those in plain English?