Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This relates to section 166 on page 303. If a developer has planning permission, be it for ten years or five years, is building on the basis of permission for 1,000 houses for which the phasing and all that has been done, and if by the time that permission expires only 800 have been done, those 800 have been built under planning permission and are fine. However, and this is detailed under sections 166(1) and 166(2)(a) and (b), "Effect of expiration of duration of permission", what is not done is unauthorised. The developer cannot just plough ahead. He or she would have to go for a new application for what is not done. That is the way that will work.