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:

Sometimes, Chairman, when one gets into this monitoring, everything is monitored. Then one looks at how complex the next iteration of county development plans will be. One of the things that has been circulating in my mind in the course of this discussion is that it is really about what is happening on the ground. This will be a planning and development Act so the test for me, very often, is to ask if something is being prohibited on the ground which needs to change.

The Chairman points in this question around zoning, and whatever, so this is very much about that practical issue and is about what is happening or not happening, as opposed to the monitoring of the 150 other things that are laced across a very complex plan. I believe that there is a certain amount of that going on the moment but the real test for me is that when one is adjudicating on developments, whether issues are being thrown up or applications are being refused because of non-compliance with some policy because of something being outdated, and whether that needs to be addressed?

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