Red tape delays decisions on projects with thousands of jobs in offshore wind farms

[patslatt]

Today's Sunday Business Post article Sunday Business Post | Irish Business News describes the red tape delays among fifteen government bodies that are holding up projects with thousands of construction jobs in offshore wind farms. The planning process of about five years is way too long.

Obviously,the government needs to get the lead out of lazy bureaucratic arses. And why should so many government bodies be involved? Couldn't a coordinating committee be set up as a one stop shop for offshore wind farm planning applications? Given the mass unemployment in construction,these planning delays are unconscionable.

[anewbeginning]

I agree Pat...good post....

An Bord Pleanala is a joke as is the whole planning process.

You have these sandal wearing clowns with their secure state jobs for life and fat pensions who object to everything and anything and condemning thousands to the dole queue.

If it's in the economic interests of country, you can be sure some idiot will object.

[Digout]

Amazing really, no bother to get some action quickly over a painting, but for more important issues they fall asleep. We need change quickly.

[anewbeginning]

People labour under the belief that senior and less senior civil servants are somehow brilliant super productive human beings.

Mostly they are not, and mostly they are clock watchers who wouldn't last a week in the private sector.

[Geckko]

That article is wort translating into real world english:

Red tape forstalls massive tax payer funded pork for wind farm companies.

[sickofitall]

Red tape forstalls massive tax payer funded pork for wind farm companies.

You have these sandal wearing clowns with their secure state jobs for life and fat pensions who object to everything and anything and condemning thousands to the dole queue

And the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

[jpc]

I agree Pat...good post....

An Bord Pleanala is a joke as is the whole planning process.

You have these sandal wearing clowns with their secure state jobs for life and fat pensions who object to everything and anything and condemning thousands to the dole queue.

If it's in the economic interests of country, you can be sure some idiot will object.

Typical.
We need low emission energy.
But NIMBY
Not out there sure we have fished there for generations.
We need to make up our minds fast.

[sandar]

Yous ee whne people on the right argue that cutting beauracrcay and public service reform is needed this is the sort of thing we have in mind, but we get shot down and insulted.

[adamirer]

People labour under the belief that senior and less senior civil servants are somehow brilliant super productive human beings.

Mostly they are not, and mostly they are clock watchers who wouldn't last a week in the private sector.

Senior civil servants aren't on the clock. Plus, nce again, you're an idiot. I think I should add that to my tag when responding to you.

On the original thread, fully agree the planning process is way too lolng. FF seriously messed up and should have shrunk the myriad of planning bodies over the past 12 years.

Planning permission first goes to a local authority who seek consultation....
If its in an sac/spa/nha then consultation with NPWS/DAU in dept environment...
appeals can go through bord pleanala, environmental protection agency and on and on.. its a farce.

People like 'anewbeginning' need to stop taking ignorant cheap shots about things they clearly know nothing about, and look at the political taskmasters who have let such situations develop where responsibility can so often fall between the cracks of different agencies, with different agendas, all squabbling over the same project.

The problem is simple. There is NO joined up Goverment. Each dept, hell, each section, works directly towards their goals and there is little compromise.

[jpc]

[COLOR="Red"], and look at the political taskmasters who have let such situations develop where responsibility can so often fall between the cracks of different agencies, with different agendas, all squabbling over the same project.[/COLOR]
The civil service in a nutshell