Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion
Ms Maria O'Dwyer:
We are also working with HISCo. There are challenges in some of these areas. It is good with HISCo because they are making the decision with the planning authority as to which area we should develop and incentivise. The challenge for us is that without this model how does one pick between all of the different developers and all of the different landowners? How do we actually demonstrate, as an agency of the State, that we are treating all as fairly, no more favourably and no less favourably, then each other? This is where we must come back and say that we need the planning authority to make the decisions here and to prioritise which developments we should invest in as the State, and then to follow through and deliver on it.
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