Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Planning and Development Bill is the second biggest piece of legislation that has ever gone through this House. It deals with critical issues to do with the delivery of housing, the right of communities to participate in the planning and development of their area, the right of communities and individuals to have access to justice on community planning and development issues, and much more. The Bill is being dealt with in the committee. All of the Opposition spokespeople, and possibly others, are deeply unhappy that we are being asked to consider some 1,200 amendments in a very condensed period of, I believe, 20 or 30 hours. In that timeframe, it is not possible to deal with that number of amendments and the complexity of this critically important Bill. Opposition spokespeople have asked that it be spread out more to make it possible to deal with this critical legislation that deals with housing, planning, development and democracy.

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