Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion
3:00 pm
Mr. Paul Hogan:
No. Right now, we plan to publish the amendments. That was agreed by the Government this morning. The intention is to issue an updated draft document that incorporates those amendments. That will be published this week. Given likely events, it will be for an incoming government to finally determine the NPF, assuming it is in accordance with the legislation under which the process commenced, the 2000 Act. That requires the Government to decide to finalise the document with the full environmental assessments completed and to then bring the document to the Oireachtas. I presume that will involve engagement with a future committee at that stage.