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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What is an NPA?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the average?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: What are the longest in both?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: How long has the Dublin metro project been before An Coimisiún Pleanála?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: These are applications that were put into the system and they are still in the system. One is from 2015 and one from 2022, and another from the same year. They are definitely there.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: If I may, because timewise-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it fair to say that something is dysfunctionally wrong with those particular applications or how the State is treating them? Consider the Dublin metro project, for example. This is one of the biggest and most important applications concerning the city. Dublin is one of the only European cities that does not have a rail line going from the city centre to the airport. We spent...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Mullan says "most" - I am sorry for interrupting - and again this is a frustration. I have noticed that when Mr. Mullan talks about infrastructure, he mentions that it needs to give to be given a 45-week-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----a 48-week process, and Mr. Mullan believes that in 80% of the situations, An Coimisiún Pleanála will get that right. It does seep into a person's mind that An Coimisiún Pleanála is going to get this done in 48 weeks, which I think is still a problem anyway, but only a percentage would be done in that period of time. There will still be a large chunk that will...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: If Mr. Mullan is saying that the complement of work staff is 306 or-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: -----and that it is at 299 and the organisation is nearly there, how can he say he has enough staff to deal with the complexity of the applications that are coming in when it is taking so long to put in the application? I know this is simplistic but if we have a team of ten people working on an application and it takes five years to do, surely if we quadruple that, it will take a shorter...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Are there any reports or audits into governance currently outstanding at An Coimisiún Pleanála?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I apologise for coming back at the witnesses again. I get the sense that the witnesses are working hard, getting the train back on track and are making progress, but I do not get the sense that they understand the urgency we feel, given that we are dealing daily with people who are homeless. While the figures have improved and look as though they will continue to improve, they are still too...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I was in time on the last one but I noticed everybody else was over their time.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Everyone else was over their time, so I followed other members' lead.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Could I get a quick answer about concentric developments?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Let us match regulation to need.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree, but what is driving development at the moment is not spatial planning, but the fact that no builder can make a profit building a house in the likes of County Leitrim. Builders can only make a profit building a house in counties Meath, Louth, Dublin or the mid-east.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The spatial planning is out the window at the moment. It is purely market forces driving the location of housing.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Swimming Pools (2 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps Galway County Council should take to secure funding for a swimming pool in Loughrea, County Galway. [36259/25]