Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

An Bord Pleanála has the figures for last year in the report. There is a concern that somebody proposing a strategic infrastructure development may sit down with An Bord Pleanála at length before the proposal comes before the board. One would wonder whether An Board Pleanála guided or assisted the applicant or told him or her what he or she had better change. The acid test here is, out of the decisions on strategic infrastructure over, say, the past five years, what is the percentage granted and the percentage not granted? Will Mr. Walsh tell us the percentages? I see that last year there might have been one or two not granted. Reference is made to an electrical substation. An Bord Pleanála has a mountain of statistics.