Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As with Deputy Collins, I have huge issues with rural planning and with planning in general and how slow it is. There needs to be transparency around the Part V and the Part 8 process operated by the county councils. Some councils are very fluid, lax and bullish about it. There is a Part 8 process in Tipperary town currently for road works and 291 submissions went in. These were sought and are to be welcomed but then the officials fly in the face of submissions and refuse to listen to the 75% majority that is against the works. There is a bullish attitude by Tipperary County Council in this regard.

I wrote to the Minister, and spoke with him, about Cormack Drive in Nenagh and an old Part 8 process, going back maybe 20 years. When does a Part 8 process finish? The residents never got letters to say their submissions were dealt with and that it was finished. They are now forced to go into court.

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