Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to clarify two points. The issues to which Senator Murnane O'Connor refers would have come up very clearly at the committees. Both committees were given the job of scrutinising the plan on behalf of the Houses of the Oireachtas after a motion in the Houses to do that. There was talk of strengthening the position around education, and it is plainly important that we do that in relation to planning. Decisions were then to be made on a regional basis as well. We are agreeing to put in place, through a planning Act, and this is not the plan itself but a Bill we are discussing-----