John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I will leave no stone unturned on this matter. This is precisely why I appointed Professor Niamh Brennan as chairperson of the authority, who has done an outstanding job so far in looking at these matters and is an expert in corporate governance. The Deputy must remember that I commissioned these reports. Professor Brennan has been quite assiduous in looking at all of these matters. Since coming into office, planning procedures have been tightened up and one will not find a more rigorous planning authority at this stage. The corporate governance structures have also been tightened up.

I have noticed some of the Deputy's statements in the media, and we need to be extremely careful in what we say when we talk about the invalidity of planning permission and so on. We are playing around with taxpayers' money and we need to be extremely careful. I want to see a Dublin Docklands Development Authority that functions. It has been acknowledged by all sides of the House that the authority has done great work for social regeneration and cultural activities, for which we only have to look at the new theatre that has opened. There is a vibrancy in that area which is something we simply cannot afford to throw away. Let us deal with this in a responsible way and let us get to the truth. We both share that ambition.

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