Mark Dearey (Green Party)

Will the Leader allocate time to discuss the issue of planning reform? There has been an extraordinary situation in Dundalk in the last few days. Hundreds of people have discovered they have made formal objections without their knowledge, with the accompanying €20 payment to the planning authority, to a very large leisure resort being built beside the dog racing stadium which many Members will probably be familiar with and will have visited. Hundreds of citizens who signed petitions expressing worry about various aspects of the procedure now find themselves in the position where they are formal observers of the planning application, without their knowledge but with the €20 having been paid by an as yet unknown individual. It is highly irregular.