Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Sinn Féin did not vote against it. Fair enough. That legislation was critical and key. The Deputy is right in that I do not have the full detail on how many new people An Bord Pleanála has taken on. My view is we will have to massively increase the staffing of An Bord Pleanála and not just on the marine planning side. In the areas of transport, energy and housing, I see An Bord Pleanála resourcing as the greatest constraint on delivering what our people need. We will see reform of An Bord Pleanála in that it will be massively scaled up, not just through the numbers of positions we have seen advertised to date but with far greater resources that will be needed, because that resourcing constraint is the biggest obstacle and block to delivery of housing, transport, energy and water infrastructure. That has to change.

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