Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion
2:00 am
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
-----and that it is at 299 and the organisation is nearly there, how can he say he has enough staff to deal with the complexity of the applications that are coming in when it is taking so long to put in the application? I know this is simplistic but if we have a team of ten people working on an application and it takes five years to do, surely if we quadruple that, it will take a shorter period of time to actually do that application. Given that infrastructure delivery is at such a crisis mode, that it could take well over a year and a half for An Coimisiún Pleanála to get through it and then the next steps take two or three years to get through, surely we should be really pushing up the staff levels within An Coimisiún Pleanála to achieve a much shorter delivery process within the system.
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