Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I refer to local area plans, county development plans and so forth. A great deal of work goes into them. Many of them have to be re-examined because we have moved from a national spatial strategy to the national development plan and a re-focus. The plans will have gone through, in a very thoughtful way, what is required to permit a housing development to take place, such as associated roads infrastructure, schools, community facilities and so forth. The board does not have to take account of those. It can have regard to them. The phrases "regard to" and "in compliance with" are very different. What note does the board take of those with regard to, for example, large scale strategic housing developments? There is already sizeable disquiet about more one-dimensional housing development. We need housing, but the point is there is a store of other things are not provided in parallel with it.

Houses are built but not communities. What is An Bord Pleanála's remit in that regard? There is a cost associated with it. What is the arrangement?