Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will not. I will add that we undertook a survey around size in this context and we have not, as far as I am aware, found any downsides. We keep this issue under continual review, but we looked at average size, the number of units and all those aspects, and I have not seen any downsides in the information presented to me. Any analysis we have undertaken - we can share this information with the committee if members are interested in examining it, there is no difficulty whatsoever in doing that - has shown the positive aspects of doing this. We do not have any reports of specific issues having been raised with us to say this measure and the changes we are bringing forward will be in any way negative, regressive or anything like that.

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