Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Forgive me if this is not the right question, as it relates to the planning legislation. I would be interested to hear Mr. Sweeney's perspective on that when he is talking about the good of the local community. With the planning legislation, many local communities felt that decision making was being taken away from them and brought upwards to higher levels rather than sitting with the communities. They were feeling that it was less democratic and that they were being more disenfranchised in the process under the new planning legislation. What does Mr. Sweeney think about this?