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

Amendment No. 271, tabled jointly by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny, and Cian O’Callaghan, relates to section 32 and the publication procedure for a regional spatial and economic strategy. Section 32(1)(a) requires a regional assembly, within four weeks of making or revising a regional spatial and economic strategy, to publish a notice of the making or revising of the strategy on its website and in newspapers circulating in the relevant local authority areas. This amendment proposes to change the trigger for publication to the act of agreeing to make or revise the strategy, rather than the making of or revision, and shortens the timeframe within which such publication should commence to within one week of that agreement. I will also speak to amendment No. 275, which is related-----