Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In respect of amendment No. 52, I assure members we will look at that and work with them on the regulations in that regard.

In respect of amendment No. 56, exemptions are not retrospective, so if an unauthorised development is carried out and that development becomes a type of exempted development after it has been carried out, that will not make the development authorised. The test as to whether a development carried out is authorised is based on the law that is in place at the time the works were carried out.