Darragh O’Brien has protected the concrete industry from being held accountable for widespread corruption.
Now he’s amending legislation to make it easier for large construction companies to build anywhere they wish.
Do the math.
your linkedin profile indicates otherwise 
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They are not one in the same.
You are imagining something based on your personal circumstances.
Speeding up construction and removing ridiculous objections is not the same as proper regulation of a component industry.
Excessive NIMBYism is lining the pockets of lawyers and delaying homes being built. That needs to change. I think it’s interesting that you are criticising efforts to stop, for example, residents of Blackrock on Cross Avenue (mostly multi millionaires including business people and judges) to put in nonsensical objections to the courts about bat surveys which none of them give a flying fuck about. Dermot Desmond penned a piece in the Irish Times claiming to want to fix the housing crisis and his son is all over social media claiming to want to help. In reality they are annoyed that Cairn Homes want to build hundreds of homes behind one of their two family compounds in the Ailsbury/Shrewsbury Road area of Dublin.
What funny about these claims of conspiracy is that the other side is never looked at. For example the rallying cry for years was that politicians only wanted to help publicans because of how many of them own a pub. Yet politicians ended up shutting down the industry for two years. Another grand conspiracy (related to here) is that the Government love HAP because so many of them are landlords. Yet here you are saying that DOB wants to build more homes because it’s a conspiracy to allow developers to build homes that include many social housing units. Social housing units would automatically reduce the HAP take.
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I never said they’re the same.
I said it’s a happy coincidence that Darragh O’Brien is rushing through legislation that will favour developers and the construction sector, while limiting debate.
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whats the happy coincidence?
A happy coincidence because what?
You put them together, elaborate on the connection. Other than your own personal circumstance and clearly being hooked into rage housing Twitter.
Once there’s 100% “redress” for those McMansions is given I’m sure all the “concerns” over planning will drop away.
It’s unsurprisingly that @Tim_Riggins is blinded by establishment shenanigans but I never thought I’d see the day that @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy would drink the Kool aid.
Sad times.
Sigh.
not at all my mate
i just need you to ladybird to me what you think DOBs twisted goal is here?
He supports one of the parties that’s in Government. It doesn’t get any more establishment than that.
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You’re blinded by your own personal circumstances.
Last week the High Court cried out for the Government to do something.
It’s the wealthy residents associations who can afford cases who win out of all of this, not the ordinary person who can’t buy a home.
In many respects DOB is going against many of his home constituents interests in leafy Malahide here. I’m not a fan of everything he does but he has the national interest ahead of personal ones here. After the vicious attacks on Eoghan Murphy, the person who takes housing is a brave person.
No. I can see better because of my own personal circumstances.
It’s easy for a pro establishment goon such as yourself to be blinded and miss the forcing through of legislation that experts has deemed unfit for purpose. That’s exactly what FFGG want you to do.
Darragh is alright. I remember in Malahide after he romped home in the last election, I bought him pints all night and gave him a jockey back around the village and up to The Beachcomber.
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It’s a good thing they spent millions extra on defence to buy Cathal Berry’s vote.
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And he abstained
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I have no confidence in this government because i sun bathed 5 feet from deputy Michael McGrath on Sunday…And Minister McGrath wore a long sleeved UV top that was two sizes too small for him the entire time while he was on the beach. How can we have confidence in a man child like this?
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You hate him cause he’s from Passage