Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am interested in the Minister's point about building capacity for some of the bigger shifts we need to make. I absolutely agree with that, but I am interested to hear his view on his understanding of the planning bottlenecks that remain. They do seem to be the key issue in the context of BusConnects and renewable energy. Time and again, that is where the capacity constraint is now located. Is it that we cannot compete to get the human resources to carry out the planning assessments? Is there a bottleneck that we can break in that regard? As the Minister is aware, 2030 is looming and we have a lot of projects, like BusConnects, that we feel are going on for ever given how long it is since it was first mooted. There is a great deal of frustration regarding renewables. The recent auctions have not been as good as they might have been, and all the rest of it. What is the Minister's understanding of how we can crack that?