Mr. Brendan Heneghan:

I wish to comment briefly on that. I had a look at a planning application in a completely different part of Dublin recently. There might have been 200 objections. By far, the better put together objections came from people who lived in social housing, whereas from the middle-class people beside it, it was NIMBY sort of stuff. It is not the case that less affluent areas do not have many people who know what they are about.

There is a problem inherent in the bus project in Dublin where many of the less affluent communities were never properly briefed on things. It is noticeable in that all of the objections are coming from the middle-class areas. That is a failure by a public body to keep people informed. It is my experience that there are working-class communities that are very clued in and often come up with better submissions that are more in planning-speak.