Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)

Often, one of the complaints from the AHB sector in terms of delivery is that a lot of the preplanning costs have to be put up upfront by those organisations and that puts huge pressure on them. They have suggested it limits capacity and so on. I can see on the other side how this also leaves one to be cautious when something is in preplanning. Has the Department addressed that issue?