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

Amendment No. 442, tabled jointly by Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith, Gino Kenny and Cian O'Callaghan, concerns the requirement for planning authorities to give a copy of a notice of intention to review a development plan to a number of specified bodies and seeks to amend this list of bodies to include any states where transboundary impacts may arise and the public in such states.

Similarly, amendment No. 444 would require that the notice, in addition to being published on the planning authority's website and in a newspaper circulating in the functional area, where an adjoining planning authority or transboundary state is consulted, would also need to be published in a newspaper circulating in those areas, and all such newspaper notifications would have to be repeated in at least two non-consecutive issues of the relevant newspaper.

I understand the intent of these amendments and we would like to consider them further. If appropriate, we will bring forward amendments to address these matters on Report Stage. On this basis, we ask the Deputies to withdraw these amendments.