At the select committee, Senators are not asked----

It is not a select committee.

I did not say that.

Big time.

Which amendment is the Senator speaking to?

I must ask the Senator to refrain from using unparliamentary language.

Hear, hear.

I welcome the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman.

Thank you, Senator.

Thank you, Senator.

I am conscious the Minister needs time to respond.

I thank Senator Carrigy. Before I call the Minister, I join with others in congratulating him on his very successful election as leader of the Green Party and I wish him well. The floor is now his.

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response to the debate. I invite Senator Currie to respond.

We will not let you.

Senator McDowell is a colleague of mine but he is also a former Attorney General and a very experienced legal practitioner. He has raised a very serious question. We have to deal with what it is before us today, in the present moment. We simply do not know how the Government is going to conduct itself in relation to this Bill. We know it was guillotined in the Dáil and it is proposed it will be guillotined here. Clearly, we are not going to complete all our work by tomorrow afternoon, so another guillotine will be …

I fully support the amendment. Senator Currie has been very consistent on this issue for a long time in the Seanad. It makes absolute sense. There is a huge amount of unregulated telecommunications infrastructure around the country. In my local authority area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, there has been a constant call for strategic grid mapping of this infrastructure. We see it on roofs. Litigation has been taken against parish churches to have the stuff taken off, internally and externally, including on many protect…

I concur with most of what Senators Higgins and Warfield have said. There is no point repeating it. I would like to move amendments Nos. 78, 81 and 84. I will explain the rationale behind those amendments now. Section 23 deals with procedure for reviewing the national planning framework. Amendment No. 78 seeks to delete line 14 on page 69 and insert the phrase “local authorities and their elected representatives”. So much can be lost. When you talk to county councillors, they will say it is just the chief executive…

I move amendment No. 78: In page 69, to delete line 14 and substitute the following: “(c) local authorities and their elected representatives,".

I move amendment No. 81: In page 69, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(k) prescribed bodies.”.

I move amendment No. 84: In page 70, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(6) The Minister shall, within 10 days of publication under subsection (5) lay a copy of the revised or new National Planning Framework so published before each House of the Oireachtas before a required debate in both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann.”.