Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
We need to deal with planning applications as they come in. I heard Mr. Sean O'Driscoll, a member of the infrastructure task force, speaking on many issues, one of which was objectors. In my experience, objectors have not caused the planning problems. The planning problems have been caused by lack of resourcing and failure to resource local authorities and An Bord Pleanála, not to mention the other problems An Bord Pleanála had in the context of various appointments. Problems have been created. Can Mr. Doyle tell me when the required number of people will be in position throughout the country, including in Galway, so we can have an efficient planning system?
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