Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Miche?l Anglim:
I agree with the Deputy. We are always told when the county development plan comes before us in the council chamber that it is our plan. It is the councillors in that chamber that pass it. To go back to the ten-year plan, ten years is too long. Not only could there be an elected councillor who would never have had input to a county development plan, it could go the same way for a chief executive. A chief executive could be in that job for seven to ten years, yet that person could go through without having had input to a plan either. Five years would be more in line. As Councillor Shannon outlined, if it was to go to ten years, there would have to be rigorous reviews during that period.