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

I think the problem with this is that wording. Those four words are leaving the door open. Something should be changed with those words because if you leave them there, it means an authority can be impractical. That is what it can do. That is what the law will say. If this local authority wants to be impractical, it can be because that wording has been left there to say that, and therefore it will be detrimental to another local authority. If the wording is not there at all, it means one local authority has to co-ordinate with another one when it is doing its development plan or reviewing it. There is the problem; it is the wording. If the wording was changed, it locks it down a bit more. Humans run local authorities, and some people might say, "Well, we are going to do something that is impractical". It is practical to us but impractical to somebody else, and it does not matter. I think the Minister of State should think about it.