(Cavan-Monaghan): I move amendment No. 1.
In page 3, subsection (1) line 18, to delete "subsection (2)" and substitute "subsections (2) and (3)".
Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 go together. Amendment No. 2 proposes to provide that time shall not run against a developer who holds a planning permission subject to conditions where the conditions are outside the control of the developer. This is a reasonable amendment and I would urge the Minister to accept it. Permission subject to a condition is not available until the condition precedent is fulfilled and the condition I am speaking about is one within the control of the local authority, which is also the planning authority, and I want to provide that time will not run against the developer until the condition has been complied with and the permission becomes available. I could elaborate on this but it is really self-explanatory. There is so much good sense in it I do not think it requires any argument. I know there are a number of planning permissions which will be valueless unless this amendment is accepted. I know the Minister sees the force of my argument and I suggest he could bring in an amendment in the Seanad tomorrow and arrangements could be made to complete the Bill there and bring it back here on Friday.