Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion

2:50 pm

Mr. Philip Maguire:

Absolutely. There is a most comprehensive document in this respect. I will answer this point in context of the comment the Senator made about the delay. It was just before Christmas 2012 that we got the actual direction from Government to proceed with the SDZ. We had jumped the gun in anticipation of that and for the previous three or four months we had been engaged in public consultation, particularly with the communities, the business people and the State agencies and that process has been running and that continued. We had the first iteration of the SDZ plan on public display in March and it went through public consultation. We got submissions and they were circulated with the manager's report. All that happened. There were motions in from the council and the plan we put on display was changed as a result of those motions. It went out, I think in June or July, for further public consultation. It went around the mulberry bush again and we adopted the plan at the end of November 2013. The best estimate most planning consultants had put on it was that it would be the end of this year before we could possibly have a plan ready for adoption. We were more than pleased to get it done so rigorously and yet so efficiently. It is in no small measure due to Dick Gleeson, John O'Hara and the chief planners and their team.

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