Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 267 seeks to amend section 30 concerning the process for the preparation or revision of regional spatial and economic strategies. In the context of making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy, a regional assembly must have regard to any observations and recommendations received on foot of consultations carried out and to the report of the committees established under section 29. This amendment seeks to expand this requirement to include that a regional assembly must also respond to such observations and recommendations and to the report. We have discussed some similar amendments relating to the national planning framework, and I undertook to determine if an appropriate wording could be included with regard to consultations. Again, I give a commitment to look at the wording in section 30 in that context and ask the Deputy to withdraw his amendment.