Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)

I have described what the Minister of State published yesterday as a whitewash and I do so for the following reasons. She has come up with 12 recommendations and I will provide a flavour of some of them. She mentions material contraventions and consolidation of the planning Acts. She refers to reminding local authorities of the need to review policies regularly, to communication, to planning policy and to the holding of town hall meetings. All this sort of stuff should be taking place in any event.

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