Batt O'Keeffe (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

In answer to Deputy Morgan, a super pub would not come under the Schedule as it cannot be defined as being of any strategic importance. The Government was generous to the Deputy regarding his amendment No. 22 as it could understand the motive for the amendment. The Government is quite happy that the term "proper planning and sustainable development" which is used in section37B(3)(a) and elsewhere in the Bill, fully embraces all the considerations which the Deputy has in mind.

I am quite concerned with some of the terms used by Deputy Gilmore when referring to An Bord Pleanála and that he would describe that organisation as a make-believe organisation——

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