Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

Amendment No. 9 extends the requirement of the settlement hierarchy to provide details of aggregate projected population growth of villages and small towns with a population of under 1,500 persons and open countryside outside of villages and towns. These figures would be derived by each city and county council from within the regional planning guideline population targets. Amendments Nos. 10 to 12, inclusive, provide for the renumbering of these in light of the insertion arising from the amendment No. 9. Amendment No. 12 provides for the deletion of the words "rural areas". Amendment No. 13 alters the consequential reference in light of a new paragraph inserted to take account of the aggregate population growth of the remaining areas referred to above.