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

I have a query on this section and I just want to get clarity.

Section 119(1) states:

(1) Subject to subsection (4) of section 113, where the appropriate planning authority receives a copy of an application for permission for Chapter 4 development, the planning authority shall prepare and submit to the Commission a report setting out the views of the planning authority in relation to the proposed development, having regard in particular to the matters specified in section 83.

Section 119(3) states:

The chief executive of the appropriate planning authority shall, before any report of the planning authority in relation to a proposed development is submitted to the Commission under subsection (1), submit the report to the members of the planning authority and seek the views of the members on the proposed development.

The members may, by resolution decide to attach recommendations. Will the Minister explain in plain English what this section and particularly the function of the local authority manager's report and the elected members are?