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:
Exactly. One of our colleagues stated that SDZs are great but you do the plan and then spend the next ten years arguing about who will fund the infrastructure. That remark was obviously tongue in cheek but it has been an issue. The reality is that when they get going, they move very fast. I am familiar with Adamstown. The early iteration of it, from 2004 to 2007, moved incredibly fast. It stopped thereafter but it has come back quickly again. A significant amount has happened on that site in the past three or four years. Where the conditions are right and things are in place, they can be very effective. It is about trying to replicate those conditions more readily.
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