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. Kevin Kelly:
I will make a general comment. One of my colleagues might have something additional to say.
One of the difficulties is getting engagement from the public in the making of plans. Under the current format, people do not engage in the pre-draft stage. Despite best efforts, the use of social media and the use of everything else, often it is only when a development is happening that people are almost aghast that there was a development plan and wonder how they did not know about it.
I cannot comment on the the detail but nothing struck me in going through it that there would be a fundamental change in that. I suppose we will have to figure out how we can engage the public more fully at an earlier stage in the process.
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