“While there are some good features in this Bill not least in its objective to consolidate of a patchwork of planning laws that has evolved over recent years, there are also some overarching issues which in the view of many of our members will work to unnecessarily restrict the councillors’ primacy in the development plan process,” Mr Fitzpatrick said.
“Local democracy is the bedrock of our civic culture; if the Oireachtas diminishes the role of the councillor, in a matter as relevant to local communities as planning, then the Oireachtas is diminishing Irish democracy as a whole.” The reinforcement of the oversight of the Office of the Planning Regulator in the Bill also “further limits the discretion councillors have in shaping their locality based on their realistic local knowledge of its needs and capacities”, he said.
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