Ms Frances Corr:

I wish to revisit a point made by Deputy O'Sullivan about what we have achieved over the years in the docklands. We had a set of policies written in the master plan that went back to 1997 and were reviewed every five years. This was our bible. We had guidelines. Under our remit from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, we review the master plan every five years. We are now back on the docklands for over two years and we have not been given the facilities to review that master plan. Therefore, we are going into another plan without being able to review the past. One cannot move forward unless one looks at what has been achieved and decides whether or not one wishes to bring it on or leave it. We are going to go into what is in the city development plan, whether it is a subsection or not. The city development plan deals with planning. It does not deal with community development. It has community development sections, but what we had was a holistic approach to everything we are doing in the docklands, where we did not have a "them and us" approach. There are people who can afford to buy in the docklands, such as investors, and those who can afford high rents. However, there are pockets of the indigenous community who have never had a traditional education beyond the age of 12 or 13. We are trying to work with these people, because they are our communities, and bring them along. That will all be gone. It will be thrown out and we will end up with pockets of deprivation amid wealth. In order to look at what we have achieved and see where we can bring it forward, we must review the master plan and use that as our base point.