Guidelines ‘biggest PR stunt since Houdini escape’

A KERRY councillor claimed, yesterday, people were learning that the planning guidelines announced by Environment Minister Dick Roche amounted to the “greatest PR stunt since Houdini’s escape.”

Independent councillor Brendan Cronin also said that people, who had previously been refused planning permission, were being given the wrong impression that they would now find it easier to get planning.

“Dick Roche put a lovely gloss on the guidelines, but people have been put under a false illusion,” he claimed.