Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment Bill) 2022: Discussion

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Cian O'Callaghan made the point and I think the Department agreed that those other disciplines should be named in it. I do not think sustainable development is enough to encompass that because there are varying definitions or understandings of what sustainable development may be.

My last question is on the foreshore, the airspace. The Foreshore Act states something at the moment. There is an understanding or sort of custom and practice that it includes non-stated parts in previous decisions. That is sort of historically inferred in part of it. It never mentioned airspace. We are bringing airspace into it now.

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