Barry Cowen made the comment during the first meeting of the new EU Housing Commission.
A Midlands MEP is describing the planning permission process in Ireland as 'simply criminal.'
Barry Cowen has also stated it's not a national competency of Ireland due to the various criteria in place.
It also follows the government missing its target of delivering 40,000 homes last year by over ten thousand homes
MEP Cowen says the court appeal system should be left out of it altogether:
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