Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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We all want to ensure developments are accessible for people. Anyone, by way of fair assessment, will see that developments under way now and that have been in recent years provide much better quality of life for people of all generations and all abilities. What we have to do, as Deputy O'Callaghan has said, is to ensure that underpinning our development plan are things like our public realm, our access, our parks, our roads and our paths and that all those provide that accessibility and liveability for people. That is why I refer back to section 46, which is the more appropriate place for this to be, so it can guide the development plans.