Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

An amendment to the 2000 Act, passed in July 2010, placed a legal obligation on a planning authority to include objectives for the preservation of public rights of way in development plans. This is to be done by "marking them on at least one of the maps forming part of the development plan and by indicating their location on a list appended to the development plan". This is in section 10(2)(o). This provision has been changed in this Bill to state that it “may” include objectives for preserving a specific public right of way.