Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)

Mr. Colin Ryan:

There would be monitoring as part of the operation of the plan, which reflects a number of issues. There would be an assessment of the consistency with the plan objectives and the consistency with the environmental effects of those objectives being operationalised. That is how one would monitor the situation into the future. As Ms Graham said, there will be a review process and we will have to look at how the SEA would sit in that context, whether it relates to the changes that are taking place or if there is a need for more overall SEAs. We will have to give that some thought.