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

Ms Alma Walsh:

I think the Department certainly supports an evidence-based approach to any policy changes that need to be made to the RSES, inclusive of the MASP boundaries. However, as I have said from our initial analysis, the place of work, school or college census of anonymised records, POWSCAR, data from 2022 is indicating a different scenario-----