Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The OPW does not look at the social aspect. It does not consider whether there are medical facilities in the locality, whether there is capacity in the local schools or whether there is public transport locally. Obviously the OPW will look at the infrastructural criteria such as whether the storm sewers and foul sewers have capacity, what the road infrastructure is like and whether the site is on a flood plain. That is the kind of stuff the OPW would look at.