Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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There is no doubt about that, and those capacity issues have costs in terms of fines. That was part of the reason the board could not, apart from the other issues that arose in An Bord Pleanála.

An Bord Pleanála has given us this reply, but I do not know if we were looking for it to tell us there was a mechanism to pause the decision-making process. That may well be to do with the SHDs and where there had been the kind of issues that were in the news and the flawed process. I am not sure whether we asked the board if it could pause them. This goes to what we see in the reports over recent years regarding the amount of money in the board's overall budget that is taken up by judicial reviews and whether that is to make sure they are properly examined so that we do not end up with judicial reviews with some of the issues that have arisen in a lot of the cases that were subject to judicial review.