Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. I just wanted to clarify it.

Amendment No. 609 relates to section 84 and specifically to conditions requiring the provision of open spaces. I had an amendment put into the Wicklow county development plan that where we were putting in provisions for open spaces that they be adequately located, centrally located and overlooked for passive surveillance reasons. That was accepted into the plan and I submitted it because in older estates the green space is often tucked away at the end of the road, possibly where the builders' compound was before they moved off site, and does not really offer much as a green space. My amendment would cause section 84(3)(d) to refer to conditions requiring provision of "appropriately located" open spaces. It gives a little bit of room there for somebody to decide what "appropriately" means. I am not prescriptive in saying it needs to be centrally located and passively overlooked.