Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the clarification. The threshold that a local authority has to meet for a successful enforcement in the courts often incentivises local authorities to take pragmatic approaches and try to get the issue resolved to the best of their ability short of going to court. Was any consideration given to reviewing or reconsidering that? I will not name it but a high-profile development in my constituency has attracted much public commentary. Mr. Hogan will know it well. It contains 40 apartments that have been fully occupied for three to four years. It has no planning permission, building control or completion certificates. The council is engaging sensibly and pragmatically to try to resolve the situation. The threshold to secure a successful enforcement conviction in court appears so high that we often end up with messy, pragmatic compromises, which are not necessarily consistent with the aims of the Act.