James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

While the regulations before the House are very technical, what we effectively did was allow local authorities to commence variations under the existing 2000 Act as that is what they are familiar with, rather than commence the rest of Part 3 of the 2024 Act. As they have in some cases commenced certain variations, we need to have a transitional measure put in so that those variations that have commenced will not have to be restarted again when the rest of Part 3 of the 2024 Act commences. It is in the interest of the efficiency and effectiveness of our local authorities so that they can do what is necessary in terms of rezoning.

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