Mr. Niall Cussen:

No, I am not one to dodge a question in any shape or form. The Office of the Planning Regulator is independent so we look at this in an overall sense. My off-the-cuff reaction to the Deputy would actually be to ask him has he not got enough to do in terms of the Oireachtas crawling through the minutiae of, say, flood risk guidance.

There are 30 topics involved. It is an incredible body of stuff to go through and the Oireachtas is at a particular level in the context of legislation and so on.