Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is a national planning framework and there are six provisions that the framework maker has to make. Five of the six are as follows: the identification of strategic development, which is expansion; indication of national infrastructure, which is expansion; the promotion of sustainable settlements, which is expansion; land-sea co-ordination and development, which is expansion; and the designation of regional growth centres, which is expansion. The only one that is based on the environment is conservation, which means that if the Bill lasts 20 years, we will stand still regarding the environment and not enhance that as well as the other five. Something should, therefore, go in there.