Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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The note states:

In reviewing requests for sanction, consideration is given to ensuring that priority infrastructural investment can proceed, that contractual commitments and ongoing projects can proceed; and that development contributions already collected and aligned to specific capital projects can be utilised efficiently.

It seems to be the case that local authorities interpret it in a certain way. That is what seems to be happening. It does not seem to me that the position as set out in those few paragraphs imposes any restrictions. At the very least, it gives the local authority a fairly free hand. When development levies are set out, the scheme for development levies sets out that there will be a focus on roads, water, amenities, recreation or whatever else. Once it is under those headings, it is the scheme of the local authority-----