Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brendan McGrath:
Well firstly it is the complexity. If you are trying to manage a city like Galway which is 8 km wide by 5 km north to south and everything is within 2 km of an special area of conservation, SAC, a national heritage area, NHA, or a special protection area, SPA, everything is almost a section 10 to An Bord Pleanála. We have two current examples, one project that is probably approaching 18 months now, which consists of 83 homes-----