Planning regulator on the cards after Mahon findings

The Government is to outline proposals for a planning tsar on recommendations from the damning Mahon Tribunal report.

Housing minister Jan O’Sullivan said she would outline her idea for a planning regulator to the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment when TDs return to Leinster House in September.

But questions remain on what role such a regulator will play and what their connection will be with An Bord Pleanála or the minister, she said.