Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Affordable Housing: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

There are prescribed periods for variations to county development plans. That is prescribed in legislation. There is an analysis to be done on the existing capacity of the zoned lands. Then, we plug in the new figures that have been given by the Minister, assess what impact that would have and what additional zonings would be required and then that goes out to public consultation and there is a prescribed period for that, and then it goes before the members. As I said, local authorities are working on that in the background. Some of them have already published draft proposals and proposed variations. A lot will do so over the coming month or two as they work through the data and work through their existing plans. It goes out to public consultation, and it is put before the members for adoption.

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