Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Okay. I see the additional challenge SDCC has, which, perhaps, other local authorities do not have. Fingal is drawing up its development plan at present. Given what I said in terms of getting those rightsizing schemes close to the localities in which people live, is that a consideration for Fingal County Council's when it comes to the development plan? Are there sites which are not currently zoned residential but which are being looked at in that context? I often find, particularly in built-up urban areas, that the difficulty lies in getting a site that will facilitate the older generation because of the intergenerational changes in an area. It can be quite a challenge to get that site but is Fingal thinking outside the box in their development plan process in that regard?
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