Mr. Frank McDonald:

In general a rezoning motion would be supported by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael councillors and opposed, in general, by Labour and some others on the council, including Deputy Higgins. I am not saying that Labour was consistently against zoning land. In fact, there were several cases where they supported in some cases even controversial zonings. There was a presumption in favour of development in that chamber. I do not believe that there is any doubt about that and whatever the developers or the landowners wanted to do was, in general, facilitated.