Clare County Council has recommended that the scaled-down development proposed for Mullaghmore in the Burren National Park should retain the existing sewage treatment facility and car-parking area at the site.
Councillors will vote next Monday on whether the revised planning application, lodged by the Department of the Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, materially contravenes the county development plan.
The former minister, Mr Michael D. Higgins, withdrew the original 1994 application, which included the effluent treatment facility and car-park. He lodged a revised, scaled-down planning application in October last year.
The revised application proposes to remove the overflow car-park and to take treated sewage for disposal off site.
Construction was abandoned in 1993 after the High Court ruled that the Office of Public Works needed planning permission.
However, in a report the council's senior executive planner, Mr Ciaran Lynch, recommends that the effluent treatment facility be retained for effluent from the site "in the interests of amenity, public health and water pollution".
The report also recommends that "the existing overflow car-parking area shall not be removed, but shall be retained in the interests of traffic safety".
The council also says no work would begin "until an integrated programme for the provision of appropriate visitor facilities at Ballyvaughan, Corofin and Kil fenora has been agreed with the planning authority".
The council also wants the Department of the Arts to pay the council £450,000 towards the cost of upgrading the roads serving the site.
However, a spokesman for the Department the Artss aid yesterday: "We consider the £400,000 lodged to Clare County Council in December 1990 and the interest that has accrued since to be adequate for road improvements."
In regard to the planning conditions, the spokesman said the Department "would consider them if planning permission was granted".
A spokesman for the Burren Action Group which has opposed any development at the site, said yesterday: "It now appears the council will be asked to permit the extended sewage treatment facilities and extra car-parking, which has proved totally unacceptable to so many groups, locally, nationally and internationally."
For the development to proceed, 24 out of 32 members of the council are needed to vote in favour of the material contravention.