Debate resumed on amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"welcomes the progress made to date by the Government to support the implementation of the planning-related recommendations of the final report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, particularly the publication of a general scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill in January 2015; and notes that:- the proposed legislation, which is scheduled for publication in this Dáil session, will provide for the establishment of the office of the planning regulator, which will be independent and whose primary functions will include the assessment and evaluation of local area plans, local development plans and regional spatial and economic strategies, education and research on planning-related matters, as well as powers to review the organisation, systems and procedures applied by planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála in the performance of their planning functions; and - it is expected that the work of the consultants appointed to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions in six selected planning authorities, Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath county councils and Cork and Dublin city councils, in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, will be concluded by the end of June 2015, and that subject to considering its content, it would be intended to publish the consultant’s report in due course thereafter."- (Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government)

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