Decisions must be right, not just for right now

The response to the rejection of the planning application for the proposed National Children’s Hospital was more than intriguing.

Anybody casting even half an unjaundiced eye on the whole development could have foreseen that there were serious problems with the application. This was to be a very large national hospital bringing people in from all over Ireland to the very centre of Dublin.

During certain times of the day, the centre of Dublin and indeed most of our larger urban areas resemble large slow-moving parking lots.