Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Through a mixture of innuendo, allegation and conspiracy theory, they would have us believe that our planning system is corrupt and inefficient, when by any international standard it is open, transparent and effective.

Indeed, the Green Party has some brass neck to preach about the planning process. This is the same party that regularly supports professional protesters who have scant regard for the planning process. We see this in my constituency, where they came out to support professional protestors who have wasted tens of millions of euro in taxpayers' money in the Glen of the Downs and Carrickmines.

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