Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My advice is that this would create too much uncertainty in what was meant to be a technical extension process to allow developments that have already been substantially built to be completed, and to get that second extension as per the original planning permission, however that might have been phased. It is to have that certainty element. We are not just talking about getting 20 more houses built, as Deputy Ó Broin explained. We are talking about projects that still need to secure that additional bit of financing and to not have this certainty in place could also undermine that.

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