Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Most of the Members in this Chamber do not agree with Senator Landy on that point. We are not taking power away from councils. We are dealing with an issue of time for a limited number of applications. The large scale developments that we are trying to encourage take a long time to get a decision. If one compares the 25 week process, as proposed in the Bill, to a 78 week decision making process that we know is the case from the 15 cases that I have looked at, it is a significant improvement. Senator Boyhan spoke about a line of developers who are looking to use the new system because they believe it will work. Is that not exactly what we are trying to achieve? We are trying to get houses built for people in places-----