Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Niall Cussen:
In short, with the Bill at 738 or 743 pages – I cannot remember how the printer disgorged it – we need to bear in mind that there is so much that it is trying to address. There are many parallel initiatives. Indeed, in the CPO space, there is long-promised reform of CPO legislation. There is obviously land-value sharing, and there is the residential zoned land tax. There is a series of interlocking land-activation measures that are travelling with this Bill or that come after it. I caution on the overloading of this Bill, which would make it unmanageable. These are issues that are probably best addressed in complementary legislation, but that is a matter for the Legislature, etc.
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