Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Mr. McDonald covered extensively the Dublin county development plan from 1991 to 1993. He wrote a series of articles at that time referring to Dublin county. The headline of one of those articles alludes to "where it is possible to boost the value of parcels of land beyond the dreams of avarice", and another headline reads, "Cash in brown paper bags for councillors". In that series of articles, Mr. McDonald termed the 72-member Dublin County Council as a rezoning coalition. What did he mean by that?

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