Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, I can see the logic of NIFTI and making sure all this is happening. I accept the difficulties and also that part of the Minister's job is to look at means of speeding this up. When the Minister appeared before the committee previously he spoke of a survival of the fittest scenario almost with regard to planning applications. We probably need a planning process that takes away from that. The Minister indicated that the Department had put some sort of elements on transport with regard to speeding up the process. It is just a case of how and when all this can be done. It needs to be done, however, because we cannot work on the basis of who can get through the planning process based on skill, luck or whatever else.