Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Attracta U? Bhroin:
If I might make just one last brief point, there has been a lot of talk that this Bill facilitates participation in this new plan-led approach and the challenges of engaging the public on what is sometimes an often more conceptual-type high-level plan as opposed to some practical application which they can immediately relate to. We are certainly starting off on the wrong foot if, in the very piece of legislation on talking about how can we engage civil society, we are not engaging them in the legislative process.
I would like to come to the following, hopefully, later in the session. I am conscious of time. We really need to recognise the diversity of Irish society in how we facilitate engagement throughout this Bill. There is a lot to be said on that.
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