Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 44 deals with this in an overall planning sense. Section 219 is what we would now know as Part V. It is how you would practically do a housing strategy. Section 44 is basically looking at the overall development area in a planning and spatial strategy sense. By way of example, section 44(3) states:

The housing development strategy shall include: (a) population and housing growth targets...

(i) each settlement with a population of[.]

This is the overall planning template for the development area. Section 219 is the housing strategy itself and sets the policy around it.