Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion

Ms Anne Graham:

We will do that as much as we can within the resources we have but if we are about to undertake a significant, plan-led look at the network of bus services, it would not be appropriate to start putting in bits of services around Waterford. It would be better to wait and undertake a plan-led approach, look towards what is going to be developed over the next while, and put together a network we will deliver over a few years when the funding is in place. If we go at it haphazardly, then all the work our planning team will be doing will be those haphazard interventions, which may not be the most effective.