Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would welcome further streamlining. As the Deputy said, this is complicated because the Attorney General is carrying out a wider view of our planning system. Making legislative amendments in advance or outside of that requires us to be careful because we do not want to add to what is a spaghetti of amendments to the original 2001 Act. It would be better to do that in tandem with the review.

The Covid catch-up may take longer. The key issue will not necessarily be section 254. Rather, it will be the issue I mentioned around ducting and access to ducting. A large amount of survey work has been done. It is at the design-to-build phase that people find a duct is not accessible or is being fully used. That will be the most complex issue.