Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was probably finished with the Deputy well before I started this speech.

I have listened to planners being criticised in council chambers and up and down the country for the decisions that they make. The planners do not plan decisions out of thin air. The planners make their decisions based on a county development plan and the objectives contained therein or on a local area plan. The objectives contained in those plans are put in there by the councillors. The councillors craft a plan.

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