asked the Minister for Local Government if he proposes to make it a requirement for the granting of planning permission for supermarkets that parking facilities for prams be provided, as mothers at present have to leave prams on the footpath while they are shopping.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Pram Parking Facilities.
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It is primarily for the developer in the first instance to consider what is required in the case of an individual project and for the local planning authority then to consider the matter when planning permission is sought. I do not think it appropriate to suggest a general requirement to planning authorities.
Is the Minister aware that two children were killed recently because prams had to be parked out on the street? This was outside a rent office admittedly, but this is something that should be taken into consideration for all public places.
I do not know whether Deputy Lemass feels that every supermarket in the city or every shop or everywhere a pram might go should now be made to provide——
A parking area.
I do not think that is feasible and I do not propose to do something which just would not work.
Let us hope there are no more people killed.
They were not killed because the pram was parked outside. There was more than that to it. It is ridiculous to suggest——
If they were not there they would not have been killed.
If the lorry did not come up the street and do something peculiar they would not have been killed either. That is a rather stupid type of suggestion.