Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes. There was a procedure whereby as part of that substitute consent application it was also possible to make a request for additional new development connected to the activity for which substitute consent was being applied for. At the time, we argued that those two things should not be allowed to happen. It was almost like a reward was being given for breaking the planning rules in the past. With respect to the answer the Minister of State gave to Deputy Boyd Barrett, that there is no time limit on the retrospective permission, does this apply in the type of substitute consent applications I have just outlined? It will be extremely problematic if there is no timeline for this type of application.