Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

My first question is for TU Dublin and concerns TOD. We have seen a lot of damage done in the past by really poor speculative rezonings outside of towns and urban centres. I am thinking of leapfrog zonings with whole housing developments being built where there is no public transport infrastructure and where it is not feasible to provide such infrastructure for one particular development in a random field that should not have been zoned at that time anyway. With the changes that have happened around planning in recent years, do the TU Dublin witnesses feel there are sufficient controls to ensure this is no longer a problem?