Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage
9:00 am
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy might want to wait until he sees that before he presses the amendment. As the Deputy was speaking, I was being briefed on it. I want to signal the intent that we are going to come back on Report Stage with an amendment specifically on the issue of using the provisions that we are introducing in good faith as a way of facilitating the hoarding of land. We may be dealing with the same issue that the Deputy has a concern about. That is all I am saying.