Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The national planning framework should be a cornerstone of our planning process underpinning the national development plan. It is absolutely vital to achieving our climate commitments, not just in the development of offshore renewables, which is pivotal in getting to our 2030 targets, but also about stitching in transport-oriented and transport-led development to make sure we can drive down our transport emissions as well. I represent a regional city. The NPF should absolutely be putting balanced regional development front and centre and ensuring the type of investment required to rebalance our country away from a Dublin-centric approach and out into the regional cities like Cork, Galway, Limerick and most importantly Waterford. We have to be serious about the NPF. Is this a piece of work we are going to get done in this Government?

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