Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a briefing note which members can take away afterwards so they know what we are doing. There is no great mystery to most of this stuff. It is about streamlining the planning process, extensions of planning in certain circumstances, protecting tenants in terms of security of tenure when there is a sales process in a development and beefing up the RTB in certain areas to get decisions out faster. These are all practical things that have come up in the discussion of the plan. The legislation is a relatively small part. There are 80 actions in the plan and the legislation probably only addresses five or six of them. However, it is still important we get them moving, particularly the planning one. I want to talk to the committee about how we can maintain integrity in the planning system while, at the same time, getting decisions faster. That is the key issue we are looking to change in legislation.