Mr. Brendan Heneghan:

There are three things that would be useful. My experience with the start of the development plan is that it sets out 26 issues for discussion and they seem to make it very clear that they do not want you to raise issues 27 and 28, which is to cut the debate down at the start.

The second one, which we have laboured, is that the timescale is not that sensitive on a ten-year development plan, where they should give us three months.

The third issue is where, quite frankly, our residents' association do not make submissions because they will pay no attention to them. There needs to be much greater give on the part of officials.

To sum up the topic, there are five bus corridors where 150 to 200 submissions went in. There were reports on all of them and not a single item in any submission has been accepted. It is just not credible that 200 people across Dublin could not collectively have a single idea of anything that is wrong with five bus corridors, some of which I believe are in the Deputy’s constituency.

Public officials are just not open to hearing what people have to say.