Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

Section 156(8) deals with the penalties in connection with unauthorised developments and provides that, where a person has been convicted of an offence under section 154, which is an offence of not complying with an enforcement notice, the court may, in addition to imposing a specific penalty, order the person to take steps notified in the enforcement order. However, the reference throughout the rest of the enforcement provisions of the Act is to an enforcement notice rather than an enforcement order. Accordingly, this is a technical amendment to replace the word "order" with "notice" for consistency.

The other amendments to section 156 of the principal Act under amendment No. 58 are grammatical corrections.