James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the interaction between An Bord Pleanála and the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, I understand, from my limited time in local government and from people I speak to with vastly more political experience in the area of planning, that there is a concern that the OPR has a growing and growing remit. In this year’s round of county development plans, it intervened in the draft stage of plans, which has not been seen before. Is An Bord Pleanála concerned about overlap of remit and about the growing statutory responsibility and remit of the OPR? Is the board concerned the OPR is going into areas it originally did not envisage going into and that that is having an impact and slowing the number of housing units being delivered?