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. David Kennedy:

The only thing we can make a mistake on is underzoning. If we overzone, is that a mistake? I do not think so. It is a mistake if we underzone. We have to zone enough land and enable it immediately.

On the second blockage, much has been said in the media in recent times about the culture of restraint and constraint and systems and processes that are designed to constrain or restrain activity. That culture needs to change across the board to one of enabling activity and accelerating activity and of a can-do attitude. They are the key blockages and the key-----

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