Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion
Mr. Conor O'Connell:
I know. We are living in a post-Covid environment as well where some of the commuting patterns have changed and will be permanently changed. Thankfully the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is going to put out the compact growth guidelines to allow, we hope, for more own-door high-density developments rather than just apartment developments, which are more difficult to finance. That will help as well but fundamentally, the level of divergence between what we are planning for and what is actually happening is so severe that it is causing this constriction in housing supply and our planning for housing supply.