Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

The commission is actively recruiting and that is all very welcome. The one thing I would say is that a lot of it is in the context of the backlog, the changing nature of planning applications and also the other non-planning functions the commission has to deal with, including some of the appeals and so on. What we are hearing through my colleague Deputy Pa Daly and his outreach to the renewable energy sector is that there is now going to be an additional resource requirement arising specifically from that directive. I would like to hear some comfort that the Department is aware of that in terms of forward planning and that it is part of the mix in addition to what the commission has already got.