Planning objections and jobs
Mattie McGrath, Michael Healy-Rae and Michael Lowry pressed the Taoiseach to stop funding and rein in An Taisce, saying it was blocking jobs and investment. Lowry argued planning law should be changed to curb vexatious objections.
There has to be balance in terms of how we all behave in society. We cannot all be absolutist in pursuit of our own objectives to the exclusion of the well-being of others in society. The balance is being tipped in the wrong scale here completely and it will create unnecessary tensions and division.
Comment on this
I was asking to get in on the same issue. I am glad that the Taoiseach understands the necessity to intervene through legislation in regard to this matter. We have a situation where we have vexatious, spurious objections deliberately obstructing and holding up investment by Glanbia, which is impacting on the ability to create jobs, impacting on the company's ability to expand and having a detrimental consequence for the farmers who are supplying Glanbia. This needs to be resolved. It is time An Taisce was reined in. We have to do that here through changing the planning laws to make these laws less available to those who want to continue objecting.