Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Mr. Jim Baneham:
Yes. Obviously, any of the sites affected by that are zoned for residential development. Returning to the 2018 assessment, it was done around the time the national planning framework, NPF, was being introduced as well. What we saw then and subsequently as well is that there were lands that had been zoned residential that were subsequently dezoned as they were not considered to be within the overall planning framework of denser development.