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Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The reform of the HSE.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The health governance Bill.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Now that big Phil is back, probably.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate and I compliment Deputy Niall Collins for formulating this Private Members' motion. It is a matter of fundamental importance to the House. We have seen the negative effects of planning decisions taken for the wrong reasons over the past decades. We have seen the impact on the built environment and the way in which politics is viewed by...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: Perhaps not all but some. The entire process of planning has been fundamentally undermined and we must all raise the bar well above what is necessary in order to rebuild trust. It does not suggest we must throw snowballs across the House but if we work collectively and constructively and move away from political bickering, we can do it in a manner that will serve us well. That is why I am...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: -----in the councils of Dublin, Cork city, Carlow, County Cork, Galway and Donegal. I refer to the perception created by the bundling of the announcement with other announcements. The other reports related to the amalgamation of Limerick County Council and Limerick City Council and Tipperary North County Council and Tipperary South County Council. The effect of the decision to abandon...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The only reason the report appeared today is because the motion was tabled. It would have been helpful if the Government accepted the situation and used the time available to respond to the motion to put the report before the House. The Government took the opportunity to hold a press conference today and share it with the media in order to undermine the motion. I have no problem in...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: These were internal inquiries carried out by a Government on local authorities controlled by the Government parties. This allows for a perception to continue which undermines the confidence in the very process. I am not suggesting that the Minister of State does not wish to ensure that the prevailing view of planning is less than what it should be. I accept her bona fides in this regard....

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that. However, if we are to get to the bottom of the problem in a collective manner and if we are to move on from the corrosive manner of dealing with planning in the past, we must turn over a new leaf and do things differently.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I suggest that the Minister of State's Government is not supporting her in her desire to do so. How are members of the public to place their faith in an internal inquiry into local authorities controlled by the Government parties? One cannot but think that the Government, which had declared that the matters involved were "spurious mostly", as the Minister, Deputy Hogan, said, had already...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: The excuse that nothing had been done is completely refuted by the freedom of information material which my party has uncovered. It was a lazy excuse by a Government looking to cover up its own efforts to avoid the issue and to kick it to touch. This is disappointing. The matters dealt with by the inquiries were spurious, as the Minister, Deputy Hogan, put it at the time. Deputy Joanna...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: We can debate that point and we could deal with it county by county. I guarantee the Minister that-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: -----councillor for councillor, members of the Minister's party will have been as implicated as others in some of the poor planning decisions-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: There is plenty of evidence. There are plenty of people living in houses built on flood plains and in areas without proper transport links. Poor planning decisions arose as a result of land holders going to councillors and demanding rezoning of their land. This is quite apart from those cases where it has been proven that money changed hands. Much of the time it was done on a whim, on the...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I want a stag hunt.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I fully reject the Minister of State's assertion. It is outrageous that she should make that statement.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: So have I.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: I have a mandate to do my business in here on behalf of the people who elected me, the same as the Minister has. I reject her statement out of hand.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: She has accepted my interruption.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Timmy Dooley: To whom is the Deputy referring?