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:

Yes, but what I am saying is that we need to understand what increased workload people are talking about because what the Bill does is streamline the system as we have it. I did a sort of sense check from a resources perspective on this and the reality is that we are still talking about a better replacement, essentially, so we are talking about the hierarchical system, that is, the national planning framework and the national policy statements, as per section 28, to provide clarity and to eliminate some of the hand-wringing that goes on in chambers around the country about various things that really should be clear from the top. Then we are still having regional strategies and development plans. We are giving longer for development plan lifetimes to enable things to be done in that space.

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