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

Amendment No. 394 concerns the obligation that such strategies include objectives, among others, for the promotion of compliance with environmental standards in relation to water quality and status, having regard to the water framework directive. Amendment No. 394 seeks to replace “promotion” here with “the control of measures”.The Bill as drafted is appropriate and balances a series of disparate inputs to allow for the creation and operation of an appropriate planning framework and to support the sustainable development of a planning authority’s functional area. The use of the word "promote" allows the development plan objectives to be appropriate and relevant to the role of the planning system in the water framework directive while being integrated with other necessary objectives to support the appropriate development of the area. I cannot accept the amendment. I hope that explains the rationale.