Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I assure Deputy Cuffe that my colleagues in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and South Dublin County Council do not need lectures on sustainable development. They recognise, as do many, that if further development is required in our lifetime it must be in support of existing communities, putting in the infrastructure they need. Development in the future must be done in a concentrated way so that we limit the development footprint as much as possible.

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