Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Government amendment No. 8:

In page 15, after line 40, to insert the following:

“(4) (a) In this subsection and subsection (5)# “relevant elected members” means—

(i) in the case of a local authority referred to in paragraph (b), the elected members of the Area Committee or Area Committees (established under section 50(1) of the Local Government Act 2001) in respect of the local electoral area or areas, as the case may be, in which the proposed strategic housing development would be situated;

(ii) in the case of any other local authority, the elected members for the municipal district or districts, as the case may be, in which the proposed strategic housing development would be situated.

(b) The local authorities referred to in paragraph (a)(i) are as follows:

(i) Cork City Council;

(ii) Dublin City Council;

(iii) Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council;

(iv) Fingal County Council;

(v) Galway City Council;

(vi) South Dublin County Council.

(c) On receipt, under subsection (1)(b)(i), of a copy of the application and any environmental impact statement or Natura impact statement, or both of those statements, the planning authority or authorities in whose area or areas the proposed strategic housing development would be situated shall—

(i) notify the relevant elected members of the making of that application, the information specified for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(iii) and the information provided for the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(vii), and

(ii) at the next meeting of each Area Committee concerned, or each municipal district concerned, as appropriate, inform the relevant elected members of—

(I) the details of the application,

(II) the consultations that have taken place in relation to the proposed development under sections 5(2) and 6(5),

(III) the notice issued by the Board under section 6(7), and

(IV) where the meeting concerned takes place after the expiry of the period specified in subsection (1)(a)(iii)(II)—

(A) information relating to the matters referred to in subsection (5)(a)(i),and

(B) where the Chief Executive has formed the views referred to in subsection (5)(a)(ii), such views.”.