Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Liam Kelleher:

The ghost estates ... the tax incentives ... in our budget submissions in that period, we would have ... we would have integrated our suggestions, our proposals with Government strategy at the time ... with the national spatial strategy, with the gateways, with the completion of the inter-urban motorway network ... with ... with what we would have seen as the necessary infrastructure.

I'm not sure, to be honest, if we specifically included ... we wouldn't have excluded the ... the ... that area from ... we wouldn't have said, "Drop those incentives''. But I don't think we highlighted them and I know we did highlight the need to integrate incentives with the implementation of the national spatial strategy and of the gate ... particularly of the eight gateway towns and cities that were identified.