Paul Gogarty

There have been several attempts to rezone it and at each time it's been stopped.

Now that's the big ticket item so to speak but then you go down to the likes of City West in Saggart where the government has taken over the

bypass centre in the old City West Hotel complex.

Residents want to see that redeveloped in the long term as a hotel and an amenity, but there's proposals to rezone land there as well.

For example, there's proposals to rezone land to the west of Adamstown, massive amounts of land.

And again, Adamstown doesn't have the facilities and infrastructure it was promised.

In actual fact, the council planners

took away a swimming pool that was planned in the plan.

They also consistently objected to trying to put department stores into Adamstown because it would upset the retail hierarchy of Liffey Valley.

So people basically have to either try and get a bus service that doesn't turn up or drive to Liffey Valley.

So we're talking about good planning.

Bad planning does happen.

When Climburs had 8,000 to 11,000 houses planned.

I made a proposal not to get rid of one unit, but to move closer to train stations, go higher up so you could create space for playing pitches and schools, and also to tie in the opening of train stations with housing.

That was outvoted by Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour, but at the same time, when we appealed to Ombord Penal, the officials wouldn't let us cross-examine the likes of the NTA.

We had to talk to the officials.

They said, oh, don't worry, it's all going to be built.

It hasn't been built, and that's the problem.

So how can you add...

more housing onto an area when you don't have the guarantees and balances.