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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not understand why it is in national policy objective No. 7, which has only to do with the 40%. It makes it sound as though the 40% has to be within the built-up footprint but then there is reference to "sequential". I do not get this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What you want is development closest to the existing settlement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will take real-world examples of Newcastle, Rathcoole and other such areas. Not everybody here knows them as well as I do but they will get my logic. If there is urban settlement and residentially-zoned land within the existing county development plan, the 40% must be in land within the existing built-up area or immediately beside it within the boundary and not the next bit out within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, within the boundary. Compact growth will only be that which is closest to the existing built-up area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Immediately contiguous to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I want to ensure I am clear on this. I know national policy objectives Nos. 8 and 9 have not changed and that 40% of the new homes are to be within the built-up footprint of existing settlements. Objectives Nos. 8 and 9 are separate. Objective No. 8 refers to delivering 50% of all new homes that are targeted in the five cities and suburbs of Dublin and the others, but not all of that 50%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get that but I am trying to understand it. Let us say the Taoiseach gets his way and there are 50,000 homes a year, as outlined. Of those homes that are being delivered in the cities, 50% have to be in the cities and suburbs, while 30% have to be in all of the other targeted settlements. That means 20% are not within any of those settlements. One would assume those are one-off houses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: The 50% there is not 50% of all of the new homes delivered in the State, it is just 50% of the new homes delivered in the cities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is a small thing but that could be read both ways in terms of its phrasing. I know it is not a change; they are the existing ones. It is almost like when you read the 50% and then the 30%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and then you are adding the 20% for the one-offs. Ms Kenny is saying that is not how to read those percentages, however?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: That discussion was very interesting. I remember being baffled when I looked at this in 2018. It is disappointing that, six years later, it is still so unclear. If clarity can be provided as we develop the final draft, that will be very welcome. To go back to Senator Pauline O'Reilly's line of questioning on how specific projects were identified, in the context of roads and public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: All of that rail ambition will be knitted into this framework if it is agreed in the next few months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: No, I think it has had its SEA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: That could happen imminently. If it does, I would expect the Department to be strongly open to knitting those key projects onto that page.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: Does the Department agree that rail does very significantly drive growth generally wherever rail investments are made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: From all the evidence globally, there are very few white elephant rail projects where there is service provision in tandem with infrastructure provision, whereas there are many white elephant road projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: Bus and rail are very different things. They are not the same and should not be considered as such. We would not have built the DART or Luas in Dublin or the commuter lines if we thought buses were the same as trains. They are not the same. Is that fair enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: They have different impacts on growth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: That comes back to setting the targets to justify the investment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: If we did not have projected capacity, the investment would not be made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)

Brian Leddin: It certainly will not draw people in and of itself, but my argument, which is supported by evidence internationally, is that provision of rail infrastructure does drive growth very significantly. We have seen that in Dublin and in the greater Dublin area in the last 40 years. I think October is the 40th anniversary of the opening of the DART. That has driven growth between Howth and...