Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Ian Talbot:

In addition to all that, there is the issue that if one piece of a 125-piece jigsaw is not fully up to scratch in regard to materiality, the whole thing can be chucked out. The new planning Act proposes to address that. It is important that we have a sense of materiality.

We often discuss what really holds projects up. Is it the planning process, all the requirements, local government or the courts system? We have been knocking most of these issues on the head, and I hope that with the new commitment we are seeing across the political spectrum, we will get things done this time. We really need to. With the new planning Act and the fact that we have the money available, there are no excuses left to prevent us going where we would like to get to. This is when we will really see whether there is any other subtle blockage we are not aware of. At the moment, we have the money and are trying to free up all the processes that might once have slowed things down or prevented them. Now we have to get it done.

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