Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am glad the Minister has recognised that the residents are facing huge uncertainty. It strikes me, not for the first time, that we might need a new Attorney General and a bit of an improvement on the homework brigade. The Minister has repeatedly given a commitment that the rights of the local community will not be reduced by the daa. He has said there will be a consultative forum with the Irish Aviation Authority in the transposition of this directive. I wonder whether the forum group that represents the broad scale of the residents' groups in the area might be given a seat on the board or around the table during the consultation process. The Minister and all the local representatives have previously met members of the combined St. Margaret's group. Is he aware that the residents are having great difficulty in getting the daa to deliver on some of the homes that need to be bought out? I know the Minister has repeatedly put on the record his commitment to consultation with the local community. We are looking for some indication that this will be followed through in the statutory instrument and the primary legislation. Once that is in, the residents will be able to kiss goodbye to any form of autonomy or say.

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