Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
I appreciate the Minister's consideration and, on that basis, I will wait to see what he does. However, he has to do something to try to accommodate this. No one wants to fix what is not broken. Nobody wants to elongate a process. Just to be clear, that is not the logic of what we are saying. We are trying to make sure there is transparency, to use the Chair's word, and that the public have fair sight of developments that could impact on them. If they have not had that opportunity, they should have it. It is probably rare that would happen. I cannot think of many Part 8 projects the public would not have seen. The Minister used housing developments as an example. There could be a proposal to build social housing that was then amended to build a hotel. That is hardly likely to happen. It is the sort of cases that Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I have raised-----
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