Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The funny thing is, I am speaking to all the same people. Nobody has advocated the Department's guidelines and what it has produced, which astounded me. I was promised by the Minister that the problem would be rectified. When I received the document, I had to vote no confidence because it is unbelievable we are in a position where we are flush with money and cannot spend it. Now there is the ideology of subsidy. What makes no sense from the perspective of affordability and viability in any realm is that the Department is to subsidise. We will have to continue to subsidise it. Where is the value for money when it could be simply corrected by reducing the densities?

The Department is moving on with a policy the UK moved away from ten years ago. They stopped building compact development. Has Mr. Doyle done any research at all? They moved completely away from compact, not least because of the antisocial issues that arose when they were completed.