Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We have learned a lot from making some big mistakes and failing some pretty important categories of people, and these are very much planning issues. We thought they were not but they actually are. The point and logic of these amendments is to say that we need to learn from our mistakes in doing planning and development. We cannot, as we did in the past, essentially allow general types of targets for development, as they often were in reality, to be dictated by what private developers wanted. That has to end. We need to put in very specific goals to ensure genuine equality for people with disabilities and genuine equality and recognition for the Travelling community. We have to recognise that now, approximately 70% of our population cannot afford market prices based on their own single earnings and have no prospect of doing so any time soon.