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

Mr. Peter Mullan:

We do but we will hit a plateau. The natural caseload is approximately 1,000 to 1,200 cases. If we had all of the resources in the world, and everything was working perfectly, there would always be 1,000 to 1,200 cases in the building. We are close to meeting our mandatory timelines. There are several other issues which are important. Sometimes issues arise in a case, particularly in infrastructure cases, whereby there are matters that were not dealt with in the application and it is necessary to seek further information. This is quite an important area. Historically we might have refused an application if there were shortcomings in the paperwork but now we go to the applicant and this can take a long period of time. I will defer to one of my colleagues on this.

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