Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I have no intention of allowing myself to be encompassed in that group. If what I heard on "Morning Ireland" today is correct, what we have heard in the last few days regarding planning matters in rural Ireland is a total sham. There was no intention of improving the situation and neither is there any now. The situation appears worse than before and all the Government was doing was creating the situation. Having codded the people of the country for the last ten or 12 years, it is now turning on those at its Ard-Fheis by giving the impression that it had suddenly come to their rescue and would allow them to live in their own place at some time in the future.

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