James Bannon (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 7, to delete lines 39 to 44 and substitute the following:

"(7) In this section 'appropriate planning authority' means the appropriate planning authority that would have ordinarily dealt with the application referred to in that subsection, prior to the enactment of section 3 of thePlanning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006.".

I commend these amendments containing drafting improvements to the House.

In amendment No. 27, I propose deleting lines 18 to 24 and replacing them with ""appropriate planning authority" has the meaning assigned to it in section 37B(7)." On Committee Stage the Minister promised that he would look at this section and said he might consider it on Report Stage. I would welcome his views after consideration of those amendments, particularly amendment No. 27 because the Minister said there could be some improvement in this section.