Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will have a kind of cliff-edge situation in a few weeks, when the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has to assess TII's fairly hefty submission and decide whether he accepts it. I will be very clear that I am not disputing the road safety argument for a moment, but I, along with Deputies and Senators on a cross-party basis, am telling him that the blanket approach will not work here. We will lobby the Minister, but it is a cliff-edge moment. He will decide this with his officials, more than likely, in a few weeks' time. Will the TII rescind its proposal? It would make life much simpler and we could revert to the very safe practice that existed up until January 2023. There was nothing wrong with that practice because a lot of houses were refused planning permission on road safety grounds.