Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion

Mr. Paul Hogan:

The Indecon assessment addressed this.

One of the key changes from the original general scheme to where we are now was to mitigate that risk on foot of Indecon's assessment. We concentrated on the early stage - the zoning uplift - as opposed to the permission uplift. We had intended to roll the zoning uplift and the permission uplift into one. The key change was that by focusing only on zoning, it becomes a transparent known charge at the outset. That is a charge on the land that is known and that applies only at the point of zoning. There is a further process to do with permission, so that was-----

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