Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Niall Cussen:

We will come back on those information points. There was a point made about employment and economic development. In the opening remarks we always talk about housing, economic development and competitiveness, and the environment, those three pillars of sustainable development. Specifically on employment, and I direct members to page 17 of their information pack, last year we published practice note number 4 on the development plan and employment land. Working very closely with the Department of enterprise, our own parent Department, and a range of other bodies, including the development agencies, we put together a detailed practice manual for local authority planning staff and members on provisioning for employment land and economic development in a development plan, somewhat filling a gap with some practical guidance in this area, including the metrics and calculating what the requirements would be. We are very committed. Economic development fundamentally drives a lot of other areas of delivery, etc. Without that economic development at the core of things, there would be a lot of issues. We have done a lot of work on that.

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