Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 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)
Ms Deirdre Scully:
Obviously, the UDZs need to be resourced. It is a question of prioritising work to ensure that critical sites such as this, which are of national importance, are staffed and delivered ahead of other pieces of work that are important but not absolutely necessary at that particular time. It is a balancing act. The proposed change in the Bill, which would give space between development plan reviews, will benefit the delivery of UDZs because we are talking about using the same people. Instead of these people embarking on the review process, which is resource-heavy, in three years' time when they have just finished the development plan, we will have an additional number of years which can be devoted to doing more local plans and UDZs. That will be a key opportunity as the legislation rolls out.
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