Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 April 2023

Public Accounts Committee

An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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I have a concern when Ms Buckley says that An Bord Pleanála is going to engage with the OPR. Prior to the finalisation of Wexford's new county development plan, I engaged with the OPR. In that case, he told me that in legislation there was a minimum density requirement of 35 dwellings per hectare. There is not, is there? This is something Ms Buckley would want to consider because if she does not answer this correctly, she is going to undermine her own position. The OPR, on the record, says that there is a minimum density requirement in planning policy of 35 dwellings per hectare. Is that the case, Ms Buckley?