Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will very briefly follow on. If a developer has got an extension and, at the end of ten years, has not completed the development, it is an unauthorised development, as the Minister stated. Does that developer have to go back to full planning permission, even though the development is near completion? The reason I ask is that a number of such developments in the area where I live were not completed in the designated period. They got an extension because there were bricks in the ground, or there was a change of ownership in the middle of development, and they went beyond the period. In one case, neighbours objected that the development was unauthorised. In another, neighbours tried to be very helpful. They asked for the development to be finished and said they would not object or complain, but the developer had problems. The development was eventually finished but beyond the timeframe the developer had. Does it fall back on the council to use its discretion if something is a few weeks away? Is there any discretion? Is it the case that once the ten years - I am talking about ten years rather than five years and then another five years - have elapsed works have to stop?