Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. David Kelly:
It is. I will let Ms Bannon and Mr. Minton speak on behalf of their reports. We have seen a couple of things in the process of doing the monitoring report. The first is that our strategies are currently 12-year strategies and it is difficult to see massive impact in the first two years of a long-term strategy. We are seeing a change in terms of turning the ship in the right direction, if one likes. That is critically important. Second, the key point we are making relates to public bodies and Departments and alignment with their spending in line with the objectives of the NPF and the RSESs. If that piece is removed from the monitoring going forward, there will be a void in terms of seeing how national government and Departments are supporting the delivery through their investment strategies, as well as seeing whether local authorities are delivering.
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