Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief, as the point has been made. Do we have the maximising of the potential of regions and then they are subsequently screened against a notion of sustainability or do we start by saying all development has to be sustainable development and the two are not separate? My reason for saying that is because how it often works is we have developers saying what they want and then we try to screen that against environmental considerations. The amendment is saying "let us end that conflict". It is, in effect, saying "end developer-led development". That is really what it is saying, and that the principles of sustainability and development are not separate but the same. It is a better wording. It is about wording but it does resolve that tension.