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

On amendment No. 614, I accept what the Minister of State said in that there is reference within development plans to cover that. I agree that building control is a place where measurement should happen. However, in the context of the State strategising going forward, architects and engineers strategise for the site they have and comply with whatever is put in front of them, but they do not strategise for a county, town, village or urban centre. That is not their job; that is the planner’s job. We are not giving them instruction to strategise. There may be a statement of measures and perhaps objectives.