Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I will refer to that amendment in the course of my contribution.

I welcome the opportunity which the Green Party motion provides for a debate in this House on the funding of politics, the planning of the country's development and the related issues which have arisen in the debate regarding housing, transport and land use generally. The purpose of the Labour Party amendment is to find a constructive way, through an all-party committee, to improve the legislation and regulations on political funding and to support the calls of the Green Party for action on the Kenny report on land and for action to improve the way in which development in this country is planned.

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