Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I understood the national spatial strategy would have to be driven and I recollect that the Minister's Department was to be the lead engine in driving it. Will he tell us how this is done? I do not see anybody in charge of the strategy. I hear it mentioned from time to time but cannot recall a single decision made by a planning authority or the Government that would not have been made in any case. No planning decision that I can recall turned on the existence of the national spatial strategy.

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