Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will share time with Deputies Smyth, Casey and Ó Cuív.

The Bill was described by the proposers as a mechanism to ensure that planning permission would be necessary to install anti-homeless devices which are presently exempted development. I would have thought that, historically, the majority of such exempted development structures and edifices were put in place by property owners and business owners in an attempt to protect their property from intruders, burglars and vandals and not to discourage specifically the use of their property as a refuge by homeless people.

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