Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland

10:30 am

Ms Patricia Byron:

I will take the one on the planning process. It is the synched response. We believe there should be an independent review of the operations of the planning process. We believe there should be some sort of incentivised structure put within the process whereby those seeking planning are incentivised to produce the right information as determined by the review of the process and there should be a responsibility on and accountability by the authority to work within that process so it is a two-way street in terms of how it should work. There should be appropriate resourcing of systems. The authority has been there for a long period and any review would probably turn up a need for resourcing. That does not always mean more people but perhaps more skilled people and the required systems. I pass to Mr. Micheál Mahon if he would like to take the alternative social housing.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.