Mr McGeoch, said that in order for Scotland to achieve its renewable energy targets by 2020, "there will have to be a quantum shift" in the local planning process as it stood.
For if the Supreme Court did allow Mr McGeoch to get his name on the register of electors that would automatically allow thousands of other convicted prisoners around the UK to vote in European and municipal elections.
So the hope in the Ministry of Justice is that the draft bill will delay - and ultimately sway - any decision by the Supreme Court on this matter so that Mr McGeoch does not end up with the vote.