Amendment No. 11 puts a new section 7 into the Bill to amend section 177H(1) of the Planning and Development Act, which currently provides that any person other than the applicant for substitute consent or a planning authority may make submissions or observations in writing to the board in relation to an application for substitute consent, to clarify that this includes submissions or observations regarding the existence or absence of exceptional circumstances justifying a grant of substitute consent. Amendment No. 12 inserts a new section 8 into the Bill to amend section 177K(1) of the Planning and Development Act to provide that the board may, subject to new restrictions set out at subsection (1A), grant or refuse an application for substitute consent.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Fintan Warfield and Rebecca Moynihan; Níl, Senators Robbie Gallagher and Seán Kyne.
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