Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Public Accounts Committee
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Hogan:
The direction reduces them for most of the country. That consultation finishes today.
Regarding the policy direction, before we even do the guidelines and get a view of what people think, the more complex answer to the question of the cost of apartments is that there are significant externalities to low-density development because it is an inefficient use of land and everything has to be created from scratch, for example, new schools and new roads, with traffic congestion and people's time being wasted. I am sure there is another committee or other forum where these matters could be teased out and considered, as there are costs in that form of development and we need to get a better handle on them.
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