Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is worth repeating too that we want to look at this on Committee Stage, before Report Stage. The Deputy is right on the active travel piece, we are seeing a significant increase of routes being opened and developed throughout the country. That is great to see. On how they link up, I can speak from experience from my own local authority, Fingal County Council, where it has actually shown how those routes link up from Deputy O'Callaghan's area in Howth all the way through Baldoyle and Portmarnock into Malahide and beyond. That route has shown how the routes interlink. The local authorities show that once they are approved. If there is a further refinement that the Deputy wishes to come back with on Report Stage, I am open to looking at it. I am going to look at a paragraph (h) to deal with the other matter raised today.

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