The “significant progress” made in tackling celtic tiger era planning is the result of the 2010 Planning Act that the Greens introduced and the credit certainly does not lie with Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

The Labour Party stopped the independent review into planning “irregularities” (much to Minister Hogans delight) and ordered another dept internal review of a previous dept internal review.

Openness and transparency my arse. Disgraceful behavior from a government elected with the promise of real reform and cleaning up local politics.

Guidelines mean nothing, actual legislation is required. I really do hope the era of making multiple multi-millionaire landowners is coming to an end. This country needs to have proper community lead planning with qualified planners taking the lead, and end the interference of councillors having control over the final say.

I look out on farmland which the planners – and local residents – said should be left as such.

However, O’Sullivan’s and Stanley’s party colleagues on Sligo County Council think otherwise and have consistently voted to rezone the land for housing. The only beneficiaries would be the speculators who paid over the odds for the land.

So come on folks, start putting your own house in order also!

What about the planning inquiries, Jan. when will they be restarted?

Fine Gael said that they would change to a more “transparent planning system” in government
This is the coalition’s interpretation of an open and accountable planning system = complete BS
One rule for people with Brown envelopes and another for those without

No change / same system just packaged differently and while I am at it what qualifications does Mrs. O’Sullivan have to deal with it?

More waffle and nonsense!

The current government with Labour being in power are as crooked as FF Oisin Quinn a Dublin City Councillor was recently found to have breached 4 codes of ethics by the Ethics committee on by lobbying his fellow councillors to decide in his favour for planning on one of his property development sites in Mount Street. He is just serving his apprenticeship in politics to qualify him to take over from uncle Raoire for the bigger return for his effort.
We should at least investigate this before a tribunal is needed. The head of the Ethics committee needs to be brought to task and investigated.

Wtf are they building another bridge for less than two hundred yards from O’Connell Bridge? Celtic Tiger thinking is obviously still in some people’s minds!!!!

What does sinn fein propose?

Now that’s what I call a smokescreen!

Didn’t the 2011 planning act already stop the risk of future planning screwups?

@mattid – the ethics committee investigated Oisin and found him guilty yes guilty of 4 breaches of code of ethics and nothing was done! Not one rule broken but 4. Corrupt thank god for freedom of speech as the media in general did not make an issue of it. Strange in the times we are in with tribunals on planning going on and he was up to his neck in it. I would be interested to know why the Garda did not investigate as it was reported on TV and Radio/ press when it happened. Corruption in the council does not seem to be important enough to do anything about it. This guy will progress to politics and get bigger rewards like uncle Raoire.