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
Mr. Stephen Garvey:
I think it will be a positive, obviously. Under the national planning framework, up to about 120,000 units were dezoned, phase 2 lands or strategic lands. It is likely a lot of that land will come back into the system, and hopefully quite quickly. We will have to wait and see. I suppose it depends on how some local authorities are calculating. The real positive that could come down the track here is that under the planning Act 2024 a lot of local authorities moved to a ten-year lifecycle. If we all align with a ten-year lifecycle, a lot of that land could be brought into the system much more quickly.
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