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

Again, this might be just because I have never come across a case like this. Somebody puts in a planning application to the local authority; he or she is refused. The applicant then appeals it to the board. The board, obviously, is assessing the original application as refused. How is it that anything would be substantially different or not substantially the same? The Minister used the phrase "seek revised plans". I ask him to explain that because an appeal is an appeal of the decision on the original application that was refused, surely.