Rory Kiely (Fianna Fail)

Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are consequential on Government amendment No. 5. All may be discussed together.

Government amendment No. 5:

In page 13, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:

"(7)(a) The planning authority shall issue, in respect of the payment to it of an amount (being the amount required to be paid under this section in a particular case), a receipt, in the prescribed form, to the payer stating that the liability for payment of that amount in the case concerned has been discharged.

(b) A document purporting to be a receipt issued under this subsection by the planning authority shall be prima facie evidence that the liability for the payment of the amount to which it relates has been discharged.".