The Irish Times

Claims have been made that the figures for population expansion contained in the development plans of Meath, Kildare and Wicklow do not add up.Michael Smith of An Taisce and members of the planning alliances in the greater Dublin area have got their calculators out and have totted up the various sections of each development plan.They claim each plan seriously underestimates the total figures contained within its covers. The result, according to Mr Smith and Ms Judy Osborne of the Wicklow Planning Alliance, is that the population forecast for the greater Dublin area may be out by as many as 200,000 people.