Irish Examiner view: Public must have faith in the system

The need for a credible planning system is greater than it ever was and the public deserves nothing less

The matter centres on a decision to deny planning permission for a development of 191 apartments in Blackpool in Cork City.

There are many aspects of governance, including the need for economic growth and the essential development of our housing needs, which require near-total trust on behalf of our citizens in the systems which have been created to manage these.

Any breakdown of that trust immediately jeopardises people’s faith in those systems and erodes the public’s confidence that decisions supposedly made in their interest can be taken at face value.