Seanad debates
Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Digital Hub Development Agency Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
I do not accept this amendment because the model we are following is the same one used for the Dublin Docklands Development Act. At the time I remember looking at that debate about the whole development of the docklands from a distance. Members of the local community were pretty annoyed at what they felt was the lack of consultation, etc. I am not critical of what happened there. There was subsequently significant consultation at the instigation of many of the local representatives both from the Oireachtas and the local authority. We have learnt about the required consultation from what happened in the Dublin docklands.
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