Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

The important issue is that the Government has confidence in the tribunal, and we have stated that confidence in our response to the Opposition's motion. Let us not get caught up in obsessing over every nuance of what the tribunal is doing. Instead, let us take a step back and examine the reasons for its establishment in the first place. It was a response to concerns about planning, something which the former Minister for the Environment, former Deputy Michael Smith, described as a debased currency.

I am not convinced that Fine Gael is a paragon of virtue in this regard.

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