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

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 27, to delete lines 5 to 9 and substitute the following: “An Act to consolidate and revise the law relating to planning and development; to provide for proper planning and sustainable development in the interests of the common good; to provide for the licensing of events and control of funfairs; for those purposes to repeal and replace the Planning and Development Act 2000 and amend certain other enactments; for purposes unrelated to the foregoing, to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 and the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009; and to provide for matters connected therewith.”.

At the outset, I thank the committee and its members for their work. We had 123 hours of debate in committee. We had pre-legislative scrutiny - nine sessions of it - before that, which produced 150 recommendations, which we gave careful consideration to, and two thirds of them are incorporated into the Bill in some form. I thank the Chair of the committee in particular.

On amendment No. 1, the amendments in this group are all linked to the proposed amendment of the Long Title of the Bill. This is an outline description for the purposes of the Bill. Amendment No. 1 provides for consequential alteration to the Long Title of the Bill to allow amendments Nos. 827 to 831, inclusive. I cannot accept the two proposed amendments to this amendment. I do not believe they have been moved yet.

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