Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

There seems to be a general thrust from the Fine Gael benches that anything proposed as a guideline from the Minister or anything that has a planned strategy is somehow lacking. Deputy Crawford mentioned the issue of job creation in Monaghan. The idea of having a strategy is to make sure that the jobs are located where the people live. In the past, the houses have too often been zoned in the wrong areas and people now have to commute many miles to work. The whole idea of having a strategy is to ensure that planners and the elected local authority members have recourse to take these things into consideration. Anything that attempts to delete that overarching guidelines is quite dangerous.

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