Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand what the Deputy is saying and I respectfully disagree with the Irish Planning Institute on this. What this is about is putting down the steps that need to be taken by a planner in the process of assessing an application for consent. Basically, any application must be assessed vis-à-vis "the integration of appropriate architectural urban design...priority area plans, coordinated area plans, the preparation of development schemes and the assessment of any application for development consent". It does not restrict them at all. It outlines the steps they need to take when assessing an application. It is that hierarchy of planning coming down to the desk where the planner is making the decision; it is the steps that he or she must take and the process that must be gone through. That is what the section outlines. It does not restrict their-----