Original sentence: An Bord Pleanála (English: Planning Board)  is an independent statutory administrative tribunal that decides on appeals from planning decisions made by local authorities in the Republic of Ireland and from 2007 directly decides major strategic infrastructural projects under the provisions of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006
Edited sentence: An Bord Pleanála (English: The Planning Board)  is a nominally independent statutory administrative tribunal that decides on appeals from planning decisions made by local authorities in the Republic of Ireland and from 2007 directly decides major strategic infrastructural projects under the provisions of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006.While supposedly independent, political pressure from the Fianna Fáil-led government forced it to do a U-turn in 2002 after it had unequivocally refused permission for the Corrib gas project