Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will take amendment Nos. 348, 393, 394 and 435. They are grouped. I will withdraw amendment No. 348. I intended to insert "natural and cultural heritage" but I think it is covered.

Amendment No. 393 concerns page No. 107 of the Bill. I do not even know if this is possible but the Bill refers to the "functional area of the planning authority" but there are things done by a planning authority within its own functional area that may have an impact on the functional area of another local authority. There could be air emissions or discharges to water, etc. The way I wrote this is probably poorly worded but I wonder if it is possible for the planning authority to have a strategy that protects and improves the environment even in the bordering parts outside its own functional area? That is what I attempted to try to do with this amendment. Let us call it transboundary stuff.