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

I move amendment No. 660:

In page 216, to delete lines 14 to 20.

This relates to section 96, entitled “Application for permission for development in material contravention of development plan or National Marine Planning Framework”, which states:

and

(b) in the case of development or proposed development referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the development or proposed development is consistent with such provisions of the National Planning Framework, National Planning Policies and Measures or regional spatial and economic strategy as deal with the matters dealt with by provisions of the development plan to which the material contravention concerned applies,

I would be interested in knowing what the specific function of section 96(2)(b) is. On foot of the Minister’s response, I may speak to the amendment further.