Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

In my constituency a Green Party councillor praised these self-styled eco-warriors, who were a completely unrepresentative and unelected group, as witnesses for democracy.

The Irish planning process has continually been held to ransom by these same protestors. They deliberately conflate a range of important issues in a failed attempt to attack the genuine achievements of the Government in planning and housing delivery, and they endorse a policy proposal that could have major implications for the housing market.

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