Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

My recollection is that the rationale for the original text of sections 152 and 154 is because these are emergency provisions and these are your safeguard procedures. While the State has the power and ability to do that then it is a safeguard that it would notify the local authority. That would mean then the local authority is aware of what is happening and it obviously then has a function of being able to check whether everything happening in terms of building regulations, safety and all those sort of things, so that is being followed. By getting rid of the notification procedure, does that not have the potential to undermine the safeguards? I agree that things sometimes have to be done very fast and that is absolutely necessary, so I do not want to see that hindered. I am concerned about the safeguards. State security, for example, is very broad. There are State security issues where things have to be done very fast.