Results 141-160 of 1,040,315 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Kathleen Funchion OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Holly Cairns)
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: I see a reference to the south coast DMAP but I do not see a reference to any other DMAP. If we are talking about the period up to 2040, surely we should be addressing this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: Should the apex planning document not make reference to further DMAPs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: What is in it and what is not is significant, given that it is to take us through to 2040.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: It really should be referred to as the critical planning document. A couple of the witnesses' statements need to be addressed in my remaining time. Senator O'Reilly picked up on the fact that people will go where they want. Of course they will, but this document will strongly influence things. The idea that the document is not critical or that it is loose or a high-level thing is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: There should be targets for growth that in turn justify the infrastructural investment that would lead to that growth. If there is a modest target for growth, then you do not justify it. I see that in Limerick all the time. When we try to deal with State agencies, they say there are no projections for a specified level of housing provision or infrastructural investment and that they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: By whom?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: Mr. Hogan has to say.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: Who has criticised the targets for the regional cities?
- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework: Discussion (11 Jul 2024)
Brian Leddin: There were so many arguments against those projects. It was considered, going right back, that they were not good investments. The leading economists at the time were saying the projections were not there and they argued against the projects. Brave politicians pushed through with them despite those arguments and the politicians were actually right as the projects induced the development...