Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. We are all for transparency in the planning system. Certainly, I am and the Department is too. If we can aid that, we will do so and we will look at that. Senator Boyhan is right on that point.

The Senator also referred to a register for telecommunications infrastructure. Again, that is in place. Senator Boyhan has said he would like that to be central to local authority planning. That is something we could look at doing. Every local authority has a broadband officer. That is a job we could look at and see whether we could add to it. The idea of having a broadband officer is to drive the delivery of broadband.