Mr. Frank McDonald:

Because they had their jobs to protect. If one was working for, say, Dublin City Council and one had grave reservations about what was going on in the council chamber, what could one have done? Planners and other public servants would have tipped us off about things coming up because they were so appalled by what was going on. I am delighted they did this. It is very gratifying to know that there are public servants who are concerned about the public interest and the public interest being subverted to serve private interests and profit. It was very dispiriting for the planners, in particular in County Dublin but elsewhere also. They saw rational planning being thrown out the window for the cause of somebody or other who owned a particular parcel of land to make a few bob.