Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The larger ones will be going directly to An Bord Pleanála. An Bord Pleanála does have regard to the various planning laws and guidelines in terms of making decisions.

With regard to the Deputy's point on the Green Paper, the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, will be publishing that shortly. On the guidelines, there is a large number of submissions and it will be quarter three of this year when we expect to finalise the guidelines.

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