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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

“It seems that the Planning Regulator has a huge role in these plans. When one takes the regional assemblies into account and the plans they bring forward in the making of their own regional and economic strategies, it seems to me from my reading of this Bill, which is quite complex and complicated, that the Planning Regulator feeds into the regional assembly and that is what then feeds down...”

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

“Having listened to Senator McDowell, he is suggesting we are creating a legal quagmire in this Bill for generations to come. Yesterday, it also transpired this measure would be applied retrospectively to every business as well. I did not think we could have legislation with a retrospective impact. It was pointed out yesterday, however, that this measure could be retrospectively applied to...”

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

“I agree with Senator Dooley on the issue he raised. I fully support him on it. I join with the expressions of sympathy regarding our former colleague, John O'Mahony, who died last week. I express my sympathies to his wife, Gerardine, and their family. I am sure we will have an opportunity to express those sympathies at a later date. I will raise the issue of artificial intelligence...”

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• Has spoken in 41 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — below average among Senators.
• People have made 3 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average among Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1391 times in debates — well above average among Senators.
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