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

I thank the Minister of State. I do not oppose the amendment. Although it is modest, I welcome it. I have two questions. When we were dealing with the emergency legislation granting a second period of extension, this was one of the issues some of us raised at the time. We did not want to stop the granting of a second period of extension if it allowed a development, but we felt that a planning authority should have more scrutiny as to why the extension was being sought. If it was being sought for legitimate reasons, it should be granted. However, if, for example, as this amendment seems to suggests, there might be something in the behaviour or lack of activity of that developer in another development, the extension might not be granted.

Subsection (c)(i) refers to "any information". Clearly the drafters of the section had a notion of what kind of information they were referring to. I ask the Minister of State to expand on that.

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