Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the national planning framework up to 2040. The last chance for submissions is 12 noon on Friday, 23 November. It is crucial for Senators, Deputies and the public to make submissions. The plan envisages that the number of people aged over 65 will more than double and half the jobs people work in now will not exist. There is a ten-year national investment plan and that is crucial. In County Carlow, we need proper transport and road infrastructure as well as links to Dublin, so we need investment, jobs and to work more with the IDA. There is a proposal for a national land development agency to work with local authorities and legislation for an independent office for planning regulation, so every local authority and citizen should make a submission to this plan.