Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is a question, I suppose, about understanding rules because on some occasions the issue is, whether one agrees or disagrees, for example, with quality bus corridors and we can have a separate debate on that, but central government policy constrains what a development plan can or cannot do. I know this from my own experience where I have tabled amendments to a development plan at an early stage but they were in clear contravention of a settlement plan or of national Government policy. Again, we can ask and decide whether that is right or wrong but on that basis they cannot be accepted. I am just wondering if there is something else we need to do to ensure that people actually understand what this process is and is not capable of doing in order that people do not engage, get slapped back and wonder then what the point was, which is even more disempowering?