Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can do that. Amendment No. 2 amends the definitions for the Bill to reflect that new Parts 2 and 3 amending the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, respectively, provide for their own definitions for the purposes of those Parts. Therefore the definitions of general application to the Bill itself are that:

"Act of 2020" means the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020; “Covid-19” has the meaning assigned to it by the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020.".

Amendment No. 3 provides for an amendment to the Planning and Development Act 2000 as set out in the new Part 2 of the Bill titled "Planning and Development". In this context, the definition set out for the purposes of Part 2 are those references to the Act of 2000 used in that Part meaning the Planning and Development Act 2000.

Amendment No. 4 replaces the previous reference to the "Principal Act" with "Act of 2000" accordingly in section 4, which amends section 11 of the Act of 2000 concerning the holding of public meetings for the purposes of proposed development plans.

Amendments Nos. 16 to 18, inclusive, are also Government amendments. Amendments Nos. 16 and 17 are technical drafting amendments to reflect amendment No. 2, which provides that the definition of "Act of 2020" means the "Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020" and "Covid-19" has the meaning assigned to it by that Act and is of general applicability to the Bill itself. Therefore, the definitions at section 4 of the Bill are now superfluous as a result of amendment No. 2 and are now to be deleted.

Amendment No. 18 is supplementary to amendment No. 3 to reflect that the "Act of 2000" has replaced the previously referenced "Principal Act".

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