Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's answer. I want to dig into it a little and talk about the national planning framework and Project Ireland 2040, a very positive plan that we are following. There is to be a statutory review of the plan next year, as I understand it. In the case of Limerick, we can see that what is actually happening and what is projected under the national planning framework are misaligned.

We must think about planning our city in a manner that moves away from what is known in transport, education and other sectors that invest in major infrastructure as the predict-and-provide model and looks towards using infrastructure to induce growth and development in the right places. Where schools are built, the population follows, as we have seen throughout history. I want to dig into this a little more. I would be very interested in meeting the staff in the unit in the Department that examines demographics and the siting of new schools if the Minister could facilitate it.

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