Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I would be grateful to get a view on the following point: let us say the elected members in a local authority adopt a development plan and, for a geographical area, put in objectives around flood relief works having to involve nature-based solutions. Then, if there was a proposal for flood relief works that were not nature-based solutions but fitted with the criteria for the material contravention, could the sustainable approach of the elected members through the development plan, a plan that is good in terms of climate and biodiversity, be overridden because, while it would fit with the criteria for the material contravention, it might not necessarily fit with the nature-based solutions that the elected members were trying to put through based on the development plan? I would be interested in a view on that.