Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While I know it is not the responsibility of the Minister's Department, the national planning framework is a document that is causing serious concern. It has laid out choices with regard to the cities that are being selected but is leaving everything else to the regional assemblies in terms of spatial planning and, one would imagine, in terms of capital investment. Were we to publish the national planning framework in the first quarter of next year, there still would be a lot of work to be outlined for those areas and towns that have yet to be selected. Will the projects within the capital plan be put on hold until the full national planning framework is published or will the Minister go ahead with a capital plan in the context of the current version of the national planning framework?

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