Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 12 of the Bill enables the Minister to make regulations providing for procedural and administrative matters relating to the content of sections 4 to 10, inclusive. This amendment relates to subsection (1) which specifies some of the matters to which regulations under this section may relate. The amendment provides for the insertion of a new paragraph (a) in subsection (1) specifying that the matters to which regulations may relate include the pre-application consultation under section 247 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The reference to section 5(2) deals with the prospective applicant for a strategic housing development and the planning authority. This is a very technical amendment which I do not believe is in any way controversial.