Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien hopes to bring new planning legislation before Cabinet in early September.
Mr O'Brien said that he wants to see the new Planning and Development Bill passed by the Oireachtas before Christmas.
The proposed law seeks to make the planning system easier for both the public and the construction industry to use.
However, Sinn Féin's Spokesperson on Housing Eoin Ó Broin believes that the legislation, the third largest in the history of the State, is being rushed.
He has called on the Minister to prioritise certain elements of the proposed law, rather than seeking to force the entire bill through the Oireachtas quickly.
"But also, crucially, we need staff," Mr Ó Broin said.
"Our planning authorities told us last year they need an extra 500 staff and that was just to do the work that they were doing at that point in time, not taking into account the additional work of the Minister's Bill."
Minister O'Brien has called on Opposition parties to be "constructive" over the coming months, as he seeks to get the bill passed by the Oireachtas before the Christmas recess.
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He described it as a "complex piece of legislation" that needed to be passed as a whole and could not be "slimmed down".
Minister O'Brien insisted that the legislation would be compliant with the Aarhus Convention, which allows people to take Judicial Reviews due to environmental concerns.
Property developers such as Michael O'Flynn, CEO of the O'Flynn Group, want to see lengthy Judicial Reviews tackled in the new bill.
Judicial Reviews allow planning decisions to be challenged and will be subject to some changes as part of the proposed planning law.
"The time and the delays around planning could take us three years, four years if there's a Judicial Review, to go from land to actually delivering a house and all of that of course feeds into the price of a house," Mr O'Flynn said.
"All the costs we bear goes to the purchaser of the house."
Under a draft version of the bill, those taking such reviews must have "sufficient interest".
A group taking one must do so as a company no less than one year in existence.
Other changes include An Bord Pleanála being renamed an Coimisiún Pleanála and having to comply with mandatory time limits.
Local development plans will also be extended to a ten year cycle, instead of the current six.
The Oireachtas Committee on Housing has been conducting pre-legislative scrutiny of a draft version of the Planning and Development bill over the past few months.
It published a report in April, with over 150 recommendations.
Committee chair Steven Matthews has said a number of concerns were voiced by different groups in relation to the bill.
He said that while the process of taking Judicial Reviews is often taking too long, such reviews need to be protected.
"What's vitally important in that is that we have equality of arms, so that anybody who seeks to take a judicial review because they have concerns about the decision making process are not disadvantaged by tight timelines or the availability and access to justice and representation if they wish to take those cases," Mr Matthews said.
