La candidata del Fine Gael Sharon Tolan ha contribuito a garantire la nuova zona per l’amico e co-direttore

“In June 2017 councillor Sharon Tolan, her friend Eddie Phelan and a third person incorporated EM Community Development CLG.
Tolan and Phelan served as directors of the nonprofit, which was dissolved in August 2020.
Three months later, in September 2017, a company owned by Phelan and his wife – Virtual Concepts Ltd – became registered owners of 19 acres of land in Mornington, county Meath.

Later that year another company owned by Phelan and his wife, Boyneside Camping Ltd, applied to Meath County Council for permission to build a touring campsite on the Mornington land owned by Phelan’s other company.

The council refused permission for the development in July 2018 because of flooding fears but Boyneside Camping lodged another planning application for the same development the following month.

Councillor Tolan submitted a written observation to the council in September 2018 to express her “strong support” for Boyneside Camping’s proposed development, adding that she was “personally aware of the proposed developer”.
Despite their previous concerns and objections from locals, the council’s planners said they were now satisfied that flooding risks had been addressed and the development received permission in October 2018.

An Bord Pleanála (ABP) however overturned the council’s decision in April 2019, ruling that the “unacceptable risk of flooding” at the site would “conflict with ministerial guidelines”.
Tolan later sought to have the land rezoned.
Two years later, while councillors were finalising the new Meath County Development Plan, Tolan sought an amendment to rezone Phelan’s land from rural to tourism use.

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) intervened and also expressed fears of flooding at the site. Meath County Council’s chief executive recommended the site should not be rezoned for tourism use.

The rezoning came before a special meeting of Meath councillors in September 2021, with Tolan urging her colleagues to ignore the risk of flooding and reject the chief executive’s recommendation.
Tolan’s motion to rezone the land was successful”

This is the type of stuff that happened during the celtic tiger. Instead of sense and thought being what drives planning, being friends of politicians and money is what changes how your town grows.

That was nice of her. See – there are some situations where FG will help with housing.

Ex party member and FG supporter Michael lowry is putting out self promotion videos of himself from his kitchen that Ben Dunnes money built. 😏I live smack bang in the middle of dairyland, so theres knucke draggers around me think he’s the best ever. They’re rabid infact. Cannot handle any kind of criticism towards lowry at all. Fine Gael are full of rot and corruption. From there local councillors to the TDs.