Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I did not expect to get to this question and I will defer to his previous replies but the fact that practically all Deputies in the constituency have tabled a question on this issue today indicates the seriousness of the threat residents feel regarding this development. We will call the Minister to account and call on him to stand by them and by the comments he has just made. We are dealing with a planning permission that has almost expired. It is almost ten years old and it was granted at a time standards were different in terms of noise pollution and the impact that has on people's mental health and well-being and in terms of climate change factors. An evaluation of the decision now has to be updated to take cognisance of the environmental damage and the impact on householders. One of the particular concerns in Portmarnock is noise but the St. Margaret's community is very much impacted from the point of view of some properties being bought up while others have not been because they were on the periphery of the development. Does the Minister intend to raise that aspect of the issue with the DAA? When a line is drawn, the people on the other side of it feel aggrieved that they face the worst scenario whereby their properties are not bought but they will be impacted most by the development.

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