Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister's handling of this entire Bill has been utterly shambolic. The residents who were in attendance last night, whose lives and health are on the line because of this, are shocked at the Minister's lack of knowledge and more particularly his lack of interest in these matters. The Chairman of the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy O'Dowd, raised some very important questions last night on the matters raised by a number of us regarding the correspondence between Fingal County Council and the Department expressing its reluctance to be the competent authority for a number of reasons that we outlined last night.

Deputy Darragh O'Brien made the point, which was confusing for many people, that Fingal was problematic but that for some reason, at some stage last week, it was posed that if Fianna Fáil pressed ahead with Fingal County Council and its motions that the Government would withdraw the Bill. What is this nonsense? This is the first time I heard this.

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