Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Martin Whelan:
I agree with the Central Bank and the ESRI, having read their assessment and having gone through the assumptions. They have made the assumptions. All assessments have assumptions, but they seem to me robust and authoritative figures. That is where I see the figures. Density, compact growth and so on are ultimately a by-product of planning, compact growth policy and so on. There is no doubt it is envisaged that a larger proportion of new growth will be met in urban areas with compact growth and multi-unit developments that are well serviced from a social, as well as an economic and physical infrastructural perspective. That would appear to make sense from a-----
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