Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make a suggestion and do not necessarily require a response, as I will come back to this on Report Stage. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 56(3)(a), in the context of the mid-term review there should be some mechanism to allow members to initiate the proposed changes. I appreciate that the Minister of State does not want to reopen the entire development plan process and, therefore, allow any member to make any proposed change. That would clearly be an issue. We discussed a mechanism when we debated section 52(10)(e), where there is a more restrictive way of allowing members to issue directions. Something not dissimilar to that could be useful in the case of a mid-term review.

All I am asking is for the Minister of State to look at it.