Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Let us look at the approvals that were granted this year. The number of days applications that were in the system ranged from 21 days - which is three weeks and is obviously very effective - to 1,008 days. I have been scratching my head to think of any other legal or regulatory framework that would have such disparity of timescale but I cannot find any. What actions have been taken to ensure there is some form of systemic confidence provided to people so they can have a sense of the length of time an application will take to process?