Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Chair could not have said it better. It is quite straightforward. Under the current legislation, a full draft is presented to the Oireachtas. Here, there is a process whereby we believe the Oireachtas will come in earlier. We all want a national planning framework that is robust and everything. To ensure there is no ambiguity as to the competent authority on the environmental side, it should be the Government and the Minister. We are trying to ensure a process whereby the national planning framework goes through public consultation, the Oireachtas is heavily involved both in committees and in plenary sessions, there is active public engagement and the OPR is involved. We are putting forward a structure for developing the national planning framework in the best possible way but with the Government fundamentally being the setter of policy. We have nothing further to add. We have a view at this stage. If members wish to press a vote on their views, that is fine, but this is our final decision.