Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Often land that we know will not be serviced gets zoned as a result of a county development plan. Often the advice is not to zone that land but it still ends up getting zoned. We have difficulty with accountability in the planning system.

I wish to ask about master planning. We need to encourage people to engage in the development plan process. Instead of just having vague colours on maps, communities should have a much better indication of what to expect with the zoning of land. The conflict in planning tends to come when the planning application drops and not four or five years earlier when we are considering the rezoning of the land. I have run out of time, but we should explore in more detail the development plan process.