Pat Casey (Fianna Fail)
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Both witness groups mentioned the zoning of land and serviced land. As part of the housing committee when the first NPF was brought, I had a strong view that it was very restrictive and tied our local authorities’ hands when it came to the county development plan process. We need to give our local authority more flexibility when it comes to the allocation of population growth to where we have land zoned today. We had a number of cases in Wicklow where we have serviced land sitting available but we cannot build on it because we have broken our population target for that area and-or it is zoned R2 land instead of R1 land. Is it time now to give our local authority the flexibility to zone land where we have the services today so we can sweat the assets that we have? That is the first part of the question, and I am asking both organisations.