Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is not balanced by any definition of the word. The Department is proposing that a city 1.5 times the size of Cork city will be squeezed into the capital in 15 years’ time. Given all its constraints, Dublin is bursting at the seams. What the Department is proposing to do is quite a bit more difficult than if the strategy were to significantly target growth to the regions and regional cities. That is not what it is doing. There is a fudge in this document-----