Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the issues is areas where there have been conflicts between ministerial guidelines and city and county development plans, which we will come to later as well in the context of other amendments. Is there a potential here that if the 70% was to be varied, it could find itself in conflict with a city or county development plan's retail or enterprise strategy? In such conflicts, which would take precedence? Many of us are engaged in city and county development plan reviews. For example, in Dublin Mid-West, which is my constituency, we are locating a lot of the new retail in the Clonburris strategic development zone. We have set out very clear volumes for both residential and retail, amenity and public services. I presume there is nothing in this provision which the Minister is defending that would in any way undermine, for example, percentages or floor space requirements that are in an SDZ or, more generally, in a local area plan or a county development plan. I would be interested in his response on that.

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