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

I am telling Deputy O'Callaghan what the fact is. I do not want to have an argument about it but I did not say that. We have to allow that flexibility, for example, if an applicant makes an application and says it will take ten years or if a local authority says it will take five years but the planning authority thinks it will take longer. There is no other motive in any of this. It is the normal planning process that pertains right now, except we are bringing in further clarifications on it around how one can seek an extension, which I have already mentioned, and the fact that commencements and other such things have to happen. I do not see any difficulty with it, but that is just me and I respect that people have other views.