Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

You could. I did not answer Deputy O'Callaghan's question about who decides the permissions. The planning authority would decide on the basis of the scale of the project if it would require a ten-year permission. The planning authorities responsible and the planning professionals in the local authorities would be the ones to decide. A ten-house development, for argument's sake, is not going to get a ten-year permission. It is around the scale of the proposal and then the appropriate permission for the scale of that proposal. However, that would have be sought. Someone would have to show why a project would take eight years and then permission could be granted for that.