Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the introduction of proposed planning reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3715/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The key aim of the review and consolidation of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which was led by the Attorney General, was to put plan-making at the centre of the planning system by bringing increased clarity and streamlining to the legislation and improving the functioning of the planning system for both practitioners and the general public. This Review and the Draft Bill it has produced represents the most comprehensive review of planning since the Act was first drafted.

The Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 was agreed by Government on the 13 December 2022 and the Draft Bill will be published on my Department's website this week.

It will be sent for pre-legislative scrutiny once it has been published and the aim is to have it enacted by the summer, subject to the Oireachtas timetable.