Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

Mr. Paul Hogan:

The members have a role to resolve to take action at the stage . In the context of a ten-year plan, at present we have a six-year plan with a review after two years, which is too soon to see anything.

It is a report and it does not have the same mandate for a resolution to vary the plan so soon after that time. It is a longer period of time here. If you take something like housing and the zoning of land, which is a prime function and comes up again and again, clearly at the development plan stage, it is important that the needs of the population of the area are set out. In many instances, local authorities will not run through the stock of zoned land to meet targets very quickly while in other instances, they will. The census is taken every five years and we look at that.

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