Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)

I welcome this opportunity to speak on the motion. However, it is only proper to point out the irony of the motion's origin and the irony of pointing the finger of blame at the current Government for planning irregularities. The public would be excused for forgetting there was a change of government last year and that we had a government led by Fianna Fáil. The question is whether we can distinguish the current Government from the previous one. We can go back over history, but recent history has shown the term of the previous Government was good for developers-----

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