Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 4, line 2, to delete “national” and substitute “national, regional”.

Amendment No. 7 includes a reference to "regional" within the reference to "national and local economic, social and cultural needs" in section 18A(2)(b)(i) so that the reference would be to "national, regional and local economic, social and cultural needs". This reference to regional needs has been included given the wider range of the blanket bog natural heritage area sites in comparison with the raised bog natural heritage sites. If amendment No. 7 is accepted, section 18A(2)(b)(i) would refer to selecting the most suitable bog habitats "to be designated as natural heritage areas having regard to all of the matters referred to in section 16(6) and national, regional and local economic, social and cultural needs”.

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