Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

General Scheme of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. David Walsh:

I wish to flag that what is proposed in the legislation with regard to planning and other issues is simply the first tranche. It is only part of what we envisage as a wider suite of planning reforms in respect of exempted regulations, new ways to bring units back in and the broader suite. There is very much a targeted aspect to this but it needs to be read in the broader context of the action plan.