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

The housing strategy is around looking at our population and the needs and the housing needs demand assessment will form part of that consideration. Each local authority will go through it. They will look at what the housing strategy is overall. When they are looking at the development plan, they are looking at their geographical area within the development. They are effectively doing a spatial plan that incorporates the housing need. They will look at the census and the profile of people and that is why the housing size should go into section 219.

One is housing policy and the other is basically a development strategy around housing looking at the core areas, for instance, settlements with a population of over 1,500. One is a core document on housing. The other is a planning side of it.