Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The work will go ahead and the campaign of obstruction against it will not succeed. I am amused by the neighbouring landowners who suddenly say that the fields I bought are of huge architectural significance. Who was there when they built their houses? No one has explained what is under their houses. Just because I buy land it becomes of architectural significance, while they have built a palazzi around it without carrying out any archaeological investigations.

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