Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We would all benefit from it. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage said it would produce a document to compare the changes. We have a document that compares the existing section number to the new section number as closely as possible. With regard to the sense that we do not see substantial changes once the Bill has been published, something similar to section 249(5) was proposed in the planning and development evaluation Bill and was removed. This is a draft. We have seen a lot evidence, so far, that what is proposed in the draft could well be problematic.