Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail)

I support Senator O'Toole's call for a debate on planning, with particular emphasis on the approach taken by prescribed organisations, such as the NRA. At the moment the NRA is objecting to people who are trying to build off national secondary roads. This causes untold anxiety for young couples who fail to get planning permission on their own land because the only access is via national secondary roads.

We must also focus on Dúchas, which has not gone away. It objects to special areas of conservation and national heritage areas. It even objects to proposed areas that have not yet been prescribed, creating significant difficulties. There are many areas around Lough Derg and in west and north County Clare where it is objecting to projects based on environmentally-friendly approaches.

I support the calls for a debate on the Great Southern Hotels. It is important that we debate what the Dublin Airport Authority is doing.