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

This amendment relates to section 51, which sets out the consultation process with the Office of the Planning Regulator before the preparation of a draft development plan by a local authority. It seeks to amend section 51(2), which sets out what should be contained in a development plan review report furnished to the OPR, and to provide that it should contain an overview of transport patterns and proposed modal shift to achieve sustainable transport. As the purpose of this section is to allow the OPR to provide a view on the national policy framework, it would not be appropriate for the OPR at this stage to give its views on matters that are essentially operational and will emerge as part of the process of writing and adopting a development plan, so I cannot accept this amendment.