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

I have a small question about my three amendments we discussed yesterday. I am going to withdraw amendment No. 112 because as the Minister of State outlined yesterday, section 12(8)(d) essentially provides for the same thing.

With respect to amendment No. 113, because paragraph (d) does not provide for any additional time, and as the Minister of State said in his answer yesterday the EU directive underpinning this requires a decision to be made in four months, my amendment to give simply an extra two weeks to the planning authority if it required it on foot of additional information would still be within the four months. I am wondering, therefore, whether any consideration was given to it because where the application has been submitted and if within eight weeks of the application the planning authority utilises paragraph (d) it is another eight weeks, so it is four months which makes sense. In my instance, within eight weeks the request for information is another four weeks, meaning we would still be two weeks shy of the four months. I am wondering whether that is something that could be looked at. It is only two weeks, but I see no reason not to support it.