John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We welcome the support of several of the Independents and our colleagues in Sinn Féin and the Labour Party. This should go to Committee Stage. We should take this issue out of these interdepartmental cross-departmental multifactorial quasi-functional committees and start talking turkey about it. Open spaces are being ripped up, football pitches are being interrupted and young people's lives are being affected. Residents are afraid to use their open spaces because of the absolute chaos and havoc being caused by scramblers. I hope that when it comes to the vote the Dáil will vote in favour of moving this to Committee Stage or even approve it tonight.

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