Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Report on National Development Plan: Economic and Social Research Institute
Dr. John Curtis:
That is certainly one part of it. Are there enough resources for planning? We in the ESRI are not experts on public planning but we do see that the capacity coming through the relevant body is making things difficult. It does not have enough time to deal with the projects. The same agency is dealing with an objection to someone's Velux window and a windfarm or whatever else.