Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities.
4:30 pm
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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If it puts in a minimum density that is not in the guidelines, it is an illegal function. There is no minimum density within the guidelines, and yet An Bord Pleanála is insisting that this is what a developer must build, namely, 35 dwellings per hectare. The former Minister did not write that letter. We now have a new Minister who has not got around to it either. I believe that it is the Department's function to look at this. It is a significant issue that does not help the Department in increasing housing.