Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The zoning of land is absolutely vital but the second element is the granting of planning permission. Does Mr. McDonald have any comment to make on the extent of cases where planners would have been overruled by their own management, for example, on cases where An Bord Pleanála would have reversed the decisions of the planners of local authorities and on cases where An Bord Pleanála would have decided against its own inspector's report where the inspector would have viewed the site but would have been overruled by the board which could not have had such an intimate knowledge? Would Mr. McDonald care to comment on those practices?