Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Cummins. I will take the next slot. We can come back to Deputy Higgins's questions that were unanswered. On the proposed amendments to section 5, we did not hear any evidence from anybody that came in from planning representatives, local authorities, anybody at all, that section 5 was problematic in its current form in the current Act. As a committee, I will not speak on behalf of everybody else, but I will be suggesting that section 5 retains the provision that not just a third party but a member of the public will be able to do it.

For the practicalities of people listening in and watching, how does Mr. Heneghan ensure, when putting in a planning observation, that it is representative of the 50 or the 100 residents living on the road?