Alan Kelly: Great hope of planning framework detoured to Dublin
It’s fair to say that, instead of giving us a satellite view of what a new and well-planned Ireland would look like, the recently published National Planning Framework (NFP) draft has collapsed like a punctured balloon.
It gives me personally no satisfaction to say this, not least being the then minister who initiated the process, but the much-anticipated NPF is a bit like those Halloween pumpkins we all lit last Tuesday week; looks good on approach but pretty much empty inside.
