Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To do that will require a change in the guidelines. I accept that we have had to take a brief pause here, but we are talking about the development of our country for the next 20 years and it is important that we get these new guidelines right, so that when they come into operation people will know exactly what the standards are and what they are building to for the next five, ten and 15 years. There is a huge amount of investment happening already. We know from our interactions with the private sector that there is a huge amount of interest in what the new guidelines will be, and that a potentially significant number of applications will come in off the back of those guidelines. The guidelines will be published very shortly. My hope is to bring something to Cabinet the week after next. I understand that since I announced this in October there has been a brief period of pause. I believe that people can wait a week or two more to make sure that we can get the right guidelines out and implement them in tandem with the publication of the national planning framework.

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