Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages Seanad Éireann — 2025-07-15 ============================================================ Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland I move amendment No. 5 to amendment No. 47: After subsection (15), to insert the following: “(16) Any certificate granted under this section shall expire within 6 months if substantial works have not commenced on the proposed development.”. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2025-07-15/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:03+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-07-15