Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 612 to 614, inclusive, are essentially the same. Amendment No. 614 puts the other two amendments together. I will speak to amendment No. 613. Infrastructure could be put in as a condition. As was said, the expertise needs to be in the planning department so it can understand things, and this is about infrastructure. If there is too much infrastructure going in, that is a lot of embodied carbon. We do not want to completely cut it all out but if there is a way of streamlining infrastructure, the Department could do that or it can put down conditions. Again, it needs the expertise.

Returning to the strategy amendment-----