Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

The regional planning guidelines, the flooding guidelines and the national spatial strategy concentrate on putting the right kind of development in the right places. I am making it clear that regional authorities should participate in the public consultation process and in the development of planning, given that they adopt the regional planning guidelines. It is a question of co-ordination and oversight. We need to make sure that new houses, beside the railway bridge on the Strokestown Road or elsewhere, are not flooded.

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