Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will understand the sense of abandonment by people in this rapidly growing area where this has been designated a strategic hub. As the Minister has fairly outlined, two of the key strategic assets to enable it are in private hands and are not working. If we want to go ahead with these higher-density, more sustainable developments, which we do, we need to put some money on the table to fix these problems. There do not seem to be planning conditions in the armoury of either Fingal County Council or Dublin City Council. As the Minister knows, the station is on the border of the two local authority areas, which makes even harder. We are stuck here with these assets lying inaccessible. While I welcome the Minister's reply, there is a need for him to intervene personally in order to drive this forward with whatever funding is needed to enable progress to be made.

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