asked the Minister for Transport and Power if he will consider asking Dublin Port and Docks Board to issue an interim report on the proposed scheme to modernise the port as there appears to be a great deal of speculation on the contents of the scheme.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dublin Port Modernisation.
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As I have already indicated, the Dublin Port and Docks Board's long-term development plan for Dublin port is being prepared by a planning team which includes a planning expert from a continental port and a landscape architect. The board expect that the report will be available by mid-summer.
I am informed by the board that in the absence of the detailed information which will be published with the development plan when completed, publication of an interim report would not serve any useful purpose and could very well be misleading.
I should like to take this opportunity of once again pointing out that the report will be given the widest publicity when it becomes available so that the views of all interested parties may be taken into consideration.
Who is in charge of this area? Is it the Port and Docks Board, the Dublin Corporation, the Minister for Local Government or the Minister for Transport and Power? Nobody can get information as to who is the authority there. Are the Port and Docks Board entitled to go on planning without reference to the planning authority or to the Minister for Local Government?
The Deputy seems to have misinterpreted the drift of my reply. The reply said that the Port and Docks Board are preparing a long-term development plan. When this plan is prepared it will have to be seen by everybody concerned, including the planning authority.
What about people objecting to it?
The reply also dealt with that.
Once the plan is drawn up that is the end of it.
Not by any means.