Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I agree absolutely with his last point. I have personal experience of it concerning a strategic development zone, or SDZ, in my own county. There needs to be a mechanism whereby people's reasonable concerns are properly addressed. It is not always done in the current system. Some of the so-called consultation can be a joke because it is just ticking a particular box. That issue needs to be addressed, while at the same time taking note of what is good planning.