Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As is the case here. I was a councillor for 20 years. It is a two-year programme with extensive consultation, taking cognisance of different regulations and guidelines on density, design and infrastructural capacity, all of which are highly appropriate and needed, and having regard to the failings of the planning system prior to that. However, in seeking to address that we may have gone too far. Somebody may not engage in that process despite the huge detail that is associated with arriving at a development plan, but can engage in the planning process when there is an application for two houses and hold it up for five years. It is crazy.