Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

National Spatial Strategy

3:25 pm

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. Will he further elaborate on the timeframe for the consultation process and the review of the national capital development plan? I can only speak for my own area, but I am sure that the same applies in the likes of the north west, including Sligo and Letterkenny, and in Shannon in the west. Athlone, Mullingar and Tullamore are interested in developing our region, which is best placed as a growth centre, so that benefits might accrue to it in its entirety.

With regard to its potential, that can only be realised in the context of a national spatial strategy and a national development plan which recognises both and works in parallel to one another, allowing infrastructural deficits to be addressed as well as deficiencies in other areas. It is imperative to address the deficiencies in infrastructure and other areas in order for the potential of those areas to be realised. Both the national development plan and the national spatial strategy must be singing off the one hymn sheet in order for various hierarchical regional development plans thereafter to achieve the potential based on their inclusion in the two plans.

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