Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2020-06-17
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Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central

I am not aware that the OPW is looking to take any further action in respect of the Phoenix Park in the way the Deputy has described. In terms of the processes that are necessary for the OPW to go through in order to do the kinds of things the Deputy has noted, it is required to make everything public. Doing so can lead to better evaluation and scrutiny of what the OPW is looking to do. Anything it seeks to do that requires planning permission has to be done in a very public and transparent way. However, there are not processes or structures in place whereby anything the OPW looks to do is automatically a cause for independent review or for consultants to become involved. If that does happen, it is because the OPW has to go through the planning process or is required to go through a statutory process.

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Sitting date: 2020-06-17