Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 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 (Resumed)
Mr. Philip Jones:
I am not sure, but certainly the 2010 Act brought in the core strategies. More recently, we had the powers of the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, to effectively regulate overzoning. There is a certain argument for saying that we, as a country, grossly overzoned. The Flood tribunal looked at that, and we ended up with core strategies which prevented everybody's land being zoned, and then we got the OPR when that was not sufficiently strong. I think this is another attempt to do it, but it is more subtle this way. It is not just a tax. It is the register as well, which is very important.
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