Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It will be. The legislation is completely unclear and has the potential to undermine the work of the board. We want to work with the Minister to improve and clean up the board and restore public confidence, and we have tabled amendments to that effect today. This is not an acceptable way to progress.

Having said that, if a vote is called today, we will abstain because we understand amendments will be tabled around social and affordable homes. As I said on Second Stage, we will support any Government measure that seeks to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable homes. We will judge those amendments when we see them. We are very dissatisfied and deeply unhappy with how today’s proceedings have gone. In our view and in response to the two Senators' who spoke before me, this Bill will make things worse in terms of An Bord Pleanála.