Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

Mr. Conor O'Connell:

That is a difficult question. I am not in the shoes of those who are objecting so I cannot answer on their behalf. Certainly, the extent of the objections probably rose with the extension of applications for residential developments. Maybe people were more concerned. I just cannot comment. Each objection is probably individual in its nature. Certainly, however, we have seen that as the number of housing applications rose during the recovery period, there was a corresponding significant increase in the number of objections. I would like to comment on those objections. They are objections regarding lands that were zoned for residential development. I know there are various different views about what gave rise to this, but certainly there have been growing legal challenges over the last number of years.

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