Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

National Planning Framework: Discussion

11:00 am

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I actually wrote initial restrictive housing guidelines in the Galway plan in 1997. I personally wrote them and we put them in. Subsequently, I was involved in two spatial strategies in government. We wrote guidelines. They did not set out what the Minister of State has said just now. I want the Minister of State to explain to me what "demonstrable economic need" means. What does it mean? I am not asking how the Minister of State is going to change it.

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