John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Our legislation will reform the planning system to make sure it works better and more efficiently - not in the interests of a few, but in the wider interests of society and a sustainable economy.

I will extend planning permissions for renewable energy projects. I will speed up the planning appeals system through reducing the quorum on An Bord Pleanála from three to two for small cases. I will overhaul the foreshore licensing system to modernise it for the renewable energy revolution that is beginning here in Ireland. Our development plans will have to have the climate change agenda at their core, from sustainable transport to adaptation. Those who willfully flout our planning laws will no longer get away with it under my plans. I will reform the retention system and impose punitive penalties and restrictions on its use.

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