Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will again mention the local authorities. If good proposals are brought to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and me for the development of projects that will help communities, we will certainly look at them. They will be rigorously analysed, assessed and evaluated. Big projects on substantial areas of land, as mentioned by the Deputy, need the backing of the local authority as well. We work well with local authorities to get projects like that off the ground and completed. We welcome good applications under the variety of schemes we run.

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