Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Having spoken to people who work in enforcement, I envisage a scenario whereby there could be an unauthorised structure and it could be within the six-year period, or whatever it is, for a local authority to take enforcement on it, or it could have gone beyond that and it could still be an unauthorised structure, if someone is going to carry out works to that structure, those works should not be exempted. Someone should not be allowed to carry out minor modifications or maintenance to an unauthorised structure and claim it to be exempted development.