Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
10:00 am
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The last two words of the section read "considers reasonable". I know that Deputy has flipped it the other way. On whether it is more appropriate to specify through guidance, this could be done anyway. It certainly could be done under the provision. However, on the basis of what I have mentioned already, and without being in any way dismissive, I believe the wording of the amendment is problematic. I take Deputy Ó Broin's point that a Minister could set out what he or she believes to be a traditional holiday period. I am not being facetious in saying we now have a changed Ireland. The period could be over Christmas, during Ramadan-----
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