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)

Ms Clare Bannon:

I totally accept the points made by Mr. Kelly. For the record, in the current Bill, there is a provision which sits within the regional assembly legislation, that the local authorities would prepare a monitoring report and submit it to the regional assembly every three years. That is what is proposed currently. I presume that specific sites that would be coming forward for housing, that is something we would be looking for. This may become part of that. It is very open at the minute within the Bill as to what that becomes. I am just saying that for the purposes of the committee, because that is there in the Bill.