Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To listen to the climate council, it points to other countries which have taken a more robust approach. I know we value the consultative process and the protections we have enshrined in planning law, albeit we are now trying to rationalise some of the excessive delays that occur in it. Has the Minister looked to other legal reforms which would make it easier to reach these decisions quickly? I know the delays in the planning board are inordinate and there is a big effort to bring in new expertise there, but it seems to me it needs to soar up the political agenda as a cross-government initiative whereby every Minister has a heightened obligation to remove barriers in this sphere.

See this speech in context