Land Development Agency site and lobbying
Deputy O’Brien challenged the Minister on whether the agency’s work was secret and whether it would be covered by lobbying rules. The Minister gave an example of advance work on a Dundrum site and said construction could begin immediately once the site was vacated.
The Minister is so out of touch about that.
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The Deputy is shaking his head. I will give an example of one site that it will work on-----
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-----which is the hospital in Dundrum. That is being decanted by the Department of Health. Before it is fully decanted, we are already looking at the site, plans, designs and drawings, so that once it is vacated, we do not have to do that work.
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What about the Regulation of Lobbying Act?
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We can do that immediately and commence construction because we have already done that work in advance and that is the work it is doing at present.
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Will it be covered under the Regulation of Lobbying Act or will the Minister keep it secret?