Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

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

One of the issues that came up with the substitute consent legislation we previously dealt with was enforcement and restoration, which is the wrong word but I just cannot remember the language used in the original legislation. I am referring to where there is a requirement to remediate such that enforcement means not just stopping the use of the development for a certain purpose but also restoring the land, natural habitat and environment to their original condition. From memory, there was quite a lengthy debate, if the Minister recalls, on the floor of the Dáil around the fact that there was enforcement but not necessarily so much by way of remediation. I think that was the phrase used. This seems to be the same. Am I misreading it?

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