Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

Photo of Cian O'CallaghanCian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

We have also been told some of these processes can be useful in getting certainty around things and can in the long term decrease workload and resource demands.

When we talk of someone who has no interest in the land, is that basically someone who has no ownership of the land? I could have interest in something as someone in the local community or a neighbour, but if it is restricted in that way, it cuts off anything other than ownership. Is it proportionate to potentially cut all the people with a wider, non-material, non-ownership interest out of a process on the basis there could be-----

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