Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

Currently in my constituency, An Bord Pleanála is about to consider a strategic development zone called Clonburris, which is even bigger than Adamstown. The plan for Clonburris was passed recently by members of South Dublin County Council. When the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Frances Fitzgerald, heard it was passed she said the campaign against Clonburris was not yet over, that we still had An Bord Pleanála. She said in the Lucan newsletter that Fine Gael had launched a first appeal against the Clonburris strategic development zone. However, the two Fine Gael councillors at the meeting voted for the development plans. The Senator said one thing, but the councillors said something else. If that is not hypocrisy, or at least stupidity, I do not know what is.

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