Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 March 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Section 46 states that the strategy shall include objectives for the provision, or the facilitation of the provision, improvement, extension and preservation of amenities, facilities and services to meet the social, community, recreational and cultural requirements of the functional area, including the needs of children, the elderly and persons with disabilities.
We believe that section 46(2)(a) covers it. Education is covered under "social" and "community"; "recreational" covers sport; "children" very much covers education as well and we are covering people with disabilities. In the normal course of events, any development plan will take into account and zone according to population, so we believe it is already covered.
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