Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
There was discussion about county development plans possibly being extended, with suggestions that a ten-year timeframe might be more suitable. I cannot remember whether we discussed it with the departmental witnesses or with somebody else. Where one is trying to perform an SEA on a ten-year plan, we will see deteriorations in environment and we will not see action on climate emissions. Will it be necessary to have regular assessments of the SEA and how accurate it is if we are going to extend plans out to ten years?
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