Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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There is understandable frustration among young people, or people who build up their deposit. However, there is also an understanding within the town because they are all airport people. They know the pressures on accommodation there. There was a mixed response. There was understandable anger, but also an understanding that these workers who help the local communities of Swords and Fingal to thrive need a place to stay. That needs to be understood, because there was a pretty black and white, back and forth over it on the media.

I return to the planning application. The 7,000 page, 700 drawing application is the largest planning application ever received by Fingal County Council. That includes the raising of the passenger cap. Would Mr. O'Leary have put that planning application in, or would he have put an individual application in to remove the cap or whatever? Why does he believe the DAA made the decision to put in a huge application, with ten infrastructure projects and a raising of the passenger cap?