Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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1333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 19 October 2017, if the definition of Dublin city and suburbs matches that of the NTA in the greater Dublin transport strategy encapsulating the inner metropolitan and outer metropolitan areas of Dublin. [46453/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The Dublin Metropolitan Area as defined by the National Transport Authority (NTA) Transport Strategy for Dublin referenced in the National Planning Framework (NPF) is not the same as Dublin City and Suburbs as defined and mapped by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for census and statistical purposes.

Dublin City and suburbs is a smaller, more compact area.  The Dublin Metropolitan area extends further out to areas such as Donabate to the north, Kilcock to the west and Greystones to the south.  It would normally be the case that metropolitan areas around cities are generally more extensive than a city’s contiguous built-up area or city and suburbs area.