Government set to consider change in planning laws

The Government has not ruled out changing the planning laws to allow it override the Bord Pleanála decision on the hospital.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said the Government would consider all options open to it, including a legislative change, reducing the proposed size of the project, or locating it on another site.

He was responding to Fianna Fáil deputy leader Éamon Ó Cuív, who urged the Coalition immediately to amend the Planning and Development Act so that the hospital project could be pushed through on the Mater hospital site.