Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would like to make a recommendation for the dissemination of information at the various different levels where it is required. If one reads a court judgment, one sees that it is fairly or highly complex. I have tried to read a good few of them. The executive summary aspect could just go out to the general public as well, so they would know that such a development failed or that something in an environmental impact assessment report was not done properly, for example. This would create a better understanding. I would like to see something along those lines.

There is a complexity now in the submissions for local authority planners or for the board to consider. These are aspects such as water framework directives, flood risk assessments, habitats and birds directives, and severe time pressures. Has there been feedback from local authority planners to say these things are getting way too complex for the planners to try to assess within the period of time?