Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It was not even that I was anti-development but that the developers and property had rights. They had the rights; we did not. The people had no rights. That is where we must look at how we put in place such plans, into which developers must link-in along with all the compliances and checks, some of which have been raised here.

There are simple matters. For instance, if a planning application is submitted, the developer should not be allowed to put up a tiny A4 size planning application sign because residents might not notice it.

Residents may rally together and submit an objection to the planning application and the developer may not get planning permission for the proposed development. Then another small planning application notice will be put up. If the developer does not get planning permission for the revised proposal, another notice will be put up, and the process will continue until one day approval is given, as it was given for the leaning tower of Inchicore, a 12-storey development which one sees as one approaches the Black Horse Inn. Residents did not realise that a planning application notice for that proposed development had been put up, and the planners gave planning permission for such development all the way down Davitt Road. That was the main building that was worked off. Such planning provisions must be examined.

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