Seanad debates
Wednesday, 11 December 2002
Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages.
I am looking forward. It has nothing to do with this Bill, but I fundamentally believe in the primacy of local government and I want to see it strengthened. These are options which come about. It puts a great deal of responsibility on members in holding to account those charged with responsibility on the Executive side to account for what they are doing in implementing their own strategies. This is fixed into the strategy. That is why I said it must be within the housing strategy and within the development plan. Otherwise we will get builders buying 500 acres ten miles away and saying we can attach it some time in the future, which would be disastrous. There is a balance to be struck and I think the balance is right.
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