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

Yes, and they are very welcome. I had not thought of it until I read the Bill,but I like the idea of notification of an appropriate authority to give them an instigation to compulsorily purchase. Whether or not the Minister is the most appropriate, or the Minister and the local authority, ultimately the Minister does not CPO, it is the local authority. It may well be of course that the Minister could be changed to the local authority and the local authority would not act on the notification. It might be worthwhile that some consideration is given to whether it should be only the Minister, or the Minister and the local authority and whether there is some obligation on them to act. I do not think it is already there.