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

I thank the Deputy for the question. The Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, is bringing through the Houses a planning Bill which includes an amendment to deal with the issue raised by the Deputy of access to industrial forestry to allow farmers and others to facilitate the movement of timber goods from their lands. On the issue of people objecting to the granting of planning permission, we have a very robust planning system which has done a great deal of good to protect us from things which should not happen. However, bearing in mind an increase in the number of vexatious objections and observations, reforms will be made to the system, the details of which will be published in the autumn.

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