Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Basically, what we are saying here is if an application is made to a planning authority, the planning authority must refuse it if it is not consistent with the provision to which I referred. The details for such refusal are detailed. Permission for such development within the functional area of the planning authority must be refused unless the planning authority decides to make a material contravention resolution, which itself must be consistent with the development plan and the national planning statement.

It is effectively saying if an application is made the application must be refused unless the local authority or planning authority bring forward a contravention, but that contravention must be consistent with the development plan and the national planning framework. It must be consistent with all of them - with what I have mentioned already.