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

Under a freedom of information request the article said "In a draft of the plans circulated in late January, a senior official at the Department of the Taoiseach emailed the Department of Public Expenditure to state: 'It’s weak on the South-East'" Senators have brought up many issues on this and when I wanted last week to put to a vote an amendment that never again should any national planning framework go out as a vote, I was told by the Minister of State, and he can look back on this, that it would take too long and that it would disrupt the whole national planning framework. That is what I was told, and as we know it did not pass, which is okay, and I have accepted that, but-----