Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If there was never a regulator, the Department must have some way of talking to the CCMA or the director of planning services, for example. I am sure that if I looked at the chart from five or even ten years ago, most of the same people will be in the same space. The same will be true in another five years if they are allowed. It is not good for the system. In some counties, there is a great deal of aggravation against An Bord Pleanála because someone may have been prevented from building a house somewhere. Another local authority would have known that the permission was not going to run in any event and might have got it right from day one. It does not do the Department good in some communities when it overturns decisions, after people think they got the decision they wanted but somebody objected or whatever. I have faith in An Bord Pleanála - not every time but usually.