Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement

3:30 pm

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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I do not mean to be obtuse, and I certainly would not be obtuse with the Minister, but it seems that something is missing from this discussion. I go back to my experience on local authorities many years ago when developing master plans for rapidly developing areas. It is open to landowners to have their land dezoned.

As far as the Minister is aware and his officials can establish, of farmers caught in what I would describe as a trap, has anybody asked for their land to be dezoned because they are so concerned about the imposition of-----