Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise the issue of planning in Ireland and how we are going about that business. The context is that I met the Planning Regulator yesterday and we discussed policies. He was in the audiovisual room presenting to us. It is glaringly obvious that the housing situation in this country, especially the private housing market, is dysfunctional. Developers are not building housing estates and we have an issue in that we have a lack of infrastructure in the regions and so on. The most significant thing I see happening, however, is that we are preparing county development plans and local area plans and we seem to be dezoning land, or the famous phrase is that we have to follow a core strategy. I have another name for that core strategy. It is pure nonsense. It is creating-----

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