Pat Casey (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps I misspoke at the time. The Government brought in legislation that allowed the planning system to extend it by three months. I did not mean to say that this legislation gave the Minister of State this power. There was emergency legislation, however, and part of that legislation took the planning Act into account. It also took into account that individuals were not in a position to make observations on submissions and extended that period by three months or whatever the appropriate period was. I did not intend to say that that was in this legislation.