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

How do we ensure, in the use of such a procedure - not in the current context, to be very clear, but hypothetically - that we can prevent a Liffey Valley scenario, for example, from arising? How do we make sure that investors who may have very significant commercial interests do not try to predetermine the outcome, through bribery or some other method? One of the reasons that planning reforms, including the Planning and Development Act 2000, made significant changes to the role of elected members was to prevent those circumstances from arising. I do not want to be alarmist because I know that is not the intention here but I am concerned.