Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It would be great if we could get to a one-stage process. That is probably unrealistic, but equally we have to admit that there is duplication of the decision making process. I have not studied the latest report, which was issued last week, because it is not yet available in Excel format. We are still looking at it in PDF format. There were 508 projects going through the Departments. Some 32 of those were for single units that are forced to go through a four-stage process. The bureaucracy in that regard makes no sense at all. Some 49% of the total projects were for fewer than ten units. The whole programme of delivering social housing is quite small and it is not challenging. A project with 100 units has to go through the very same process as that relating to one unit. This matter must be examined.

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