Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 38:

In page 7, to delete lines 33 to 39 and substitute the following: “(b) The members of the authority, having considered the proposed extension of the duration of the existing development plan and the chief executive’s report may determine the need to make variations to the development plan to accommodate only the essential changes required consequent on mitigation identified and required by the Appropriate Assessment or by the Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report performed in relation to a proposed extension of the duration of the development plan, or both such assessments, but where any such variation or variations are strictly limited to such requirements, in addition to the change to the duration of the plan.

(c) Where such variations constitute material variations to the development plan, the procedures set out in section 13(5), and such further requirements which follow from that shall be followed, save that any variations shall be limited to—

(i) those indicated in paragraph (b) above, and

(ii) the proposed extension of the duration of the development plan, or any change to that proposed extension specified under the Appropriate Assessment or Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report, or both, and where the earlier of any such date applies.

(d) Where such variations do not constitute a material variation to the development plan, the members of the planning authority may decide to vary the development plan strictly limited to the essential changes referred to in paragraph (b) above, and to extend the duration of the development plan in accordance with the proposed extension, or where any change to that extension is specified under the Appropriate Assessment or Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report, or both, the plan shall only be extended by the earlier of such dates indicated under the assessments, and where three quarters of the members of that authority vote in favour of the resolution.”.

This amendment speaks for itself. It is about what the chief executive's report may include.