Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Unlocking Barriers to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Joe CooneyJoe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)

Yes, that is my belief as well. Again, we would be hoping it would not turn off investors going forward. This is what we would be hoping for. Going back to zoning and the new modular wastewater treatment systems, hopefully costs will not become an issue there.

Returning to land, I have a question that I think might be best answered by Mr. Garvey, given he mentioned zoned service lands are now almost non-existent. All the lands in areas where there were no wastewater treatment plants in our last county development plans were dezoned. Is this going to be a major issue and will it hold up housing in future again? Reviews of the county development plans are ongoing, but again I presume all this land now has to be rezoned. Is this going to again hold back development?

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