Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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We have spent a lot of time talking about the delays in planning and about resources within the planning system. An increase in resources would obviously help but emergency powers have been introduced in relation to planning for local authority construction of social homes on land that is already zoned. I do not know what impact that is having as yet but would be interested in looking at the figures to see how many of those projects are in process or even how much time that would shave off because that is generally done by Part 8 development.