Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 436, tabled jointly by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny and Cian O'Callaghan, seeks to provide that the chief executive of a planning authority shall, in preparing a development plan review report under section 51(2), consult the elected members and prescribed bodies and shall reflect the matters raised in the consultations in such report and give the input due consideration in any conclusions and recommendations made.

It is appropriate that the development plan review report be prepared by the planning authority to facilitate consultation between the authority and the OPR on the preparation of the draft development plan. The elected members are extensively involved in preparing and agreeing to the development plan, and there is also significant engagement on it with a range of bodies as well as the public. On that basis, we cannot accept this amendment.