Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We acknowledge there are challenges regarding planning and making things happen quickly because we are impatient as a Government for progress and impatient to make sure we can see how we are managing the economy translating into good public services and improved public infrastructure. One of the challenges around that has been our planning system. What the Government has done, following great work from the previous attorney general Paul Gallagher who made this his signature Act, is bring forward the third largest Bill ever in the history of this State, namely the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023, which will go through the Oireachtas over the course of this winter to try to address some of those challenges. I look forward, but not with much optimism, to a positive contribution from the Deputy himself to make sure this Bill goes forward-----

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