An Taisce report - The legacy of a broken system

Even though the An Taisce planning report reminds us all of issues we might like to forget, it cannot be ignored.

It reminds us of how failure at every level of our planning process — regulators, officials and most especially politicians — let down those who trusted them to make decisions aimed at the common good.

Foolish us. These are the “catastrophic and systemic failures” that led to bizarre — and that is a kind way to describe it — over-zoning decisions, ghost estates and, too often, the whiff of corruption.