Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To clarify my point, the consenting process needs to be closely aligned with the development plan, regardless of who is doing it. That would be my view. It does not matter if it is the local authority or the next stage in An Bord Pleanála. We have seen a divergence there and that has created a lot of damage in communities that contributed to development plan processes. Those communities had an understanding of what was likely to come in and of what the zoning and site objectives were and then suddenly something way out of scale came along and An Bord Pleanála was able to rule on that.