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

Amendment No. 605 is extraordinary. I have a number of questions. It is a very dramatic intervention to have a statutory prohibition in primary legislation to prevent a planning authority or the commission from refusing planning permission for a specific reason. I am not aware of such a provision existing elsewhere. I would be very interested to know if it does. I want the Minister to explain the rationale behind it. I appreciate that he as said he would bring forward an amended wording. I do not know if it is his intention to withdraw this amendment at this point and reintroduce it on Report Stage.