Alex White (Labour)

The Minister of State was to reply on the issue of further conditionality. In terms of the overall intention of section 23, we are familiar with situations where developments have been substantially completed. It is a new section 42 of the principal Act. There is no controversy about that, but the Minister of State is adding the new circumstance where developments have not been completed but where some other issue has arisen for the developer. That is covered by the provision "the authority is satisfied that there were considerations of a commercial, economic or technical nature beyond the control of the applicant".

Senator Daly and others were unsure of what problem the measure was intended to solve. Senator Daly inquired whether it related to cases where people find themselves financially unable to secure funding from a bank or other source of funding of which they had expected to avail. Is that the reason? What is the basic rationale for the provision? Is it what Senator Daly was canvassing? I am just curious.