Search for tenet speaker:Joanna Tuffy (KildareStreet.com)

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2009: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010): Joanna Tuffy: ...and we had a lot in common. I accept he made good decisions on planning and we were often on the same side. No matter what I think about other people's decisions, however, it is a fundamental tenet of democracy that I allow people to make a decision. They are elected by the public and they make decisions, ideally under a framework that allows for the best decisions, but if they make bad...

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