Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is wrong and disgraceful and Sinn Féin Members of this House should come in here and tell the truth about what is going on up there.

I have one last point and I hope I make it well and fairly. It is wrong for a county council to have a rule stating that if someone owns a house anywhere else they cannot apply for planning permission. That has to be unconstitutional. At the end of the day, the responsibility rests with the councillors who make the plan to exclude that as an option in the development plan. If that is excluded it cannot happen, which would mean a person could apply. There is a lot more work to be done. We need more transparency and accountability. We must not have political decision-making in any political party's head office on a person's county development plan submission. It is wrong.

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