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

Okay. We were talking about the issues of the challenges and the areas that have been points of concern. I want to give an example of a case. As this case has concluded, there is no issue. It is in relation to a telecommunications mast in my own constituency that I am aware of in a small village called Glaslough. Monaghan County Council refused planning permission for that. I have the 12-page report, which is available in the public domain, as to the rationale for that. An Bord Pleanála sent its inspector - no doubt an eminently qualified inspector - to adjudicate on that decision when that decision was appealed by the telecommunications company. The inspector produced a detailed 34-page report upholding the decision of Monaghan County Council. Then An Bord Pleanála - I am not sure whether it was one person, two people or three people made this decision - compiled what could be generously described as a four-page report - there are lots of blanks.

I can tell Mr. Walsh, having read both of these others, there is no way that anybody could understand what rationale the board had for overturning that. It cites Acts but does not indicate which aspects of those Acts are responsible. It states in this-----