Planning investigations must be restarted

Judge Mahon describes corruption as endemic in Irish public life, but was limited to examining planning in Dublin.

We must now ask what has taken place elsewhere and investigate planning concerns across the country.

This process was begun under John Gormley, but all such investigations were stopped by current Minister Phil Hogan. It is now imperative that these investigations are restarted and that no politician be allowed block such enquiries. Otherwise we will never be free of this endemic corruption.