Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission
2:00 am
Mr. David O'Connor:
There is a chart on page 47 of the report which outlines two scenarios pertaining to what private and local authority developments have to go through in order to get planning permission or to get onto site. Both are extremely complicated. To refer to Michael O'Flynn's last point on the oversight executive, an oversight executive could consider this from a programme point of view. There are a whole lot of issues that require one step after another which could be amalgamated. If a programme or project management mind was put to that, the process could be systemised and made far more efficient. I wanted to mention that example.