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

Steven Matthews: It is very important.

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

Steven Matthews: I am pleased to see renewable energy being part of this. We have not had one mention of climate in this room even though it is the number one consideration. Apportioning the onshore portions to places will not happen without the wind guidelines being in place. The same may be said of housing growth. When one looks at the comments of the OPR in its 2022 report, there is concern about the...

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

Steven Matthews: At Deputy Leddin's suggestion, we will be inviting the Ministers in. We can put that question in September to the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon. I put it to the Minister of State during the Housing for All update. I have Deputy Leddin down first in the third round followed by Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Pauline O'Reilly.

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

Steven Matthews: I would be surprised if the Deputy were finished.

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

Steven Matthews: What page is that?

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

Steven Matthews: The Deputy is out of time. He can come back in if he wishes. He hit on something, namely, zoning within that compact area rather than having it all as the settlement. It starts to spread and then that becomes a settlement.

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

Steven Matthews: I will go next. A lot of the conversation we are having involves different views and opinions on planning, growth, how investment reflects on employment and, in turn, how that creates a population that desires to live in a place. That suggests to me that planning is not an exact science. It is our best attempt to look at the most sustainable way to grow an area. We must factor in things...

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

Steven Matthews: But where is that document? When we talk about the planning Bill, the housing strategy is done at local authority level, but there must be a higher level housing strategy document that goes hand in hand with it. Is that something to be done under Housing for All? We must challenge those who provide housing to build housing, and we must say what we need and what we want. It is not about...

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

Steven Matthews: There is still a lot of work to be done on this and we need to push harder to say this is where the houses will go under the plan. Developers can decide not to build houses if they want, but if they do decide to build them, that is where they are going.

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

Steven Matthews: But we are seeing the growth of Dublin and not of the regions.

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

Steven Matthews: The point I am trying to make is on how it is to be done.

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

Steven Matthews: I will come back to the monitoring in a moment. Ms Walsh has indicated she wishes to speak.

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

Steven Matthews: I want to make a point on the monitoring. I agree that it needs to be monitored constantly. We do not want to go too far off track before we realise we have done so and then try to pull it back in or work out why it went that way. We are pointing out some reasons we think it is going that way. The regional assemblies were to be reported to every two years but there was an attempt to push...

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

Steven Matthews: There cannot be leapfrogging within the built-up area.

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

Steven Matthews: On that point, is there a graphic available? Can that be represented in graphic form? It sounds quite difficult to do but has the Department has considered that?

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

Steven Matthews: I call Deputy Leddin.

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

Steven Matthews: I would say the officials thought they would be out in an hour when they saw there were only four of us here.

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

Steven Matthews: Thanks very much. Will I get my picture taken and get to sign it, like a Minister? I thank the officials for their engagement on this. There has been a massive amount of work done by Mr. Hogan's team as they tried to do this and the planning Bill at the same time. We appreciate that. The end of the public consultation is 24 September. Is that right?

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

Steven Matthews: The consultation period will have finished by the time we meet the officials again. It will probably be the third week of September. I am not sure of the dates yet. We will invite the Minister to attend that meeting as well. What is the timeline for the Department to weave the comments from the public consultation into the framework, where necessary, and publish? Am I right that the...

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

Steven Matthews: That is fine.