Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This amendment seeks to delete section 3(b), which amends section 34(12A) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, by substituting "an application in respect of the following development shall be deemed not to have required, and not to require, a determination as to whether an environmental impact assessment is required" for" if an application for permission had been made in respect of the following development before it was commenced, the application shall be deemed not to have required a determination referred to at subsection (12B)".

Section 34(12) of the principal Act specifies that a planning authority shall refuse to consider an application to retain unauthorised development of land where the authority decides that if an application for permission has been made in respect of the development concerned before it was commenced, the application would have required that one or more than one of the following was carried out, either a determination as to whether an environmental impact assessment is required or an appropriate assessment.