Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 694 seeks to amend section 114(3) to add a timeframe of four weeks for the commission to notify the planning authority of a pre-application request and to carry out the consultations for developments prescribed under section 86(10)(d) as requiring mandatory consultations. A mandatory four-week timeframe to be put in place for consultations on direct applications to the commission is not workable in practice. Depending on the development, such consultation may require a number of meetings. For those reasons, I cannot accept this amendment.