Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 152 forms part of Chapter 5, entitled Development Plans. It includes Part 3 of the Bill, entitled Plans, Policy and Related Matters. Amendment No. 152 seeks to delete lines 18 to 40 on page 183 of the Bill, to delete pages 184 to 186, and on page 187, to delete lines 1 to 31. This was proposed by Senator McDowell and I support it. The rationale behind the amendment is to delete section 78 which provides for the assessment of urban area plans, priority area plans and coordinated area plans by Office of Planning Regulator and recommendation to Minister. I will not go into it in any great length because it speaks for itself. I have no doubt that somewhere in the Minister of State's lovely, neat, clean pink sheets of paper is the word "No". In the interests of time, let us just move on. Let us not cod ourselves and try to get through as many amendments as possible. I await the Minister of State's response.