Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Okay. I have made my point. I would just ask Mr. Madouros to look a little bit closer into the evidence on that last point. Among others, the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform have done studies on this in which they did not really find planning as a major problem. The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, report, for example, showed that there was significant evidence of speculation over planning permissions, land hoarding, procurement problems it cited and so on, but planning was not really an issue. If we look at the actual numbers, the vast majority of planning applications are approved. I do not think the evidence holds up. We should-----