Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

The water supply for houses in counties around Ireland is so contaminated that we have to put hundreds of millions into upgrading water investment because of contamination from septic tanks. We can say we put the investment and the proper planning guidelines in place; I and my colleagues can genuinely say we did the right thing and had a proper planning process. When we get to a situation where a child can no longer walk from his or her home to school because there is so much traffic on the road we can say we improved the planning system in order that we would not see a repeat of that.

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