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:
If I could finish my point, that actually makes the job of my colleagues in an coimisiún even more difficult in the context of the importance of there being a very clear framework for planning set out in the forward planning process. Too many times the development plan effectively leaves it at the point of being zoned. It is very often the planning authority, an coimisiún, a debate or litigation that teases out, in relation to an individual case, the type of housing, how high, how people get in, how we provide for all of the needs that arise from that development and so on. The forward planning process should really settle most of those key questions, leaving in effect an coimisiún to deal with, broadly speaking, the implementation of the plan in the context of Government policy.
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