Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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We can discuss that another day. I am talking about how the planning system has failed to play its very important part in ensuring that we meet these incredibly important social goals and plan for them. They were not even considered planning matters. They cannot be optional extras any more. They have to be imperatives as part of the planning and development of our society and communities. That is the logic of putting them in to these statements.