Louise O'Reilly
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I think the rules that are needed are not the ones that were published necessarily.
So for years we have been looking for clarity to be brought on to the area of planning.
Now, what's been published are draft guidelines.
What's fairly obvious, I think, is that there hasn't been a level of consultation with either Gaeltacht communities or representatives of rural groups yet.
So my understanding is these guidelines now have to undergo a strategic environmental assessment, which gives the government time.
Yeah, but it also gives the government time to engage with representatives of rural Ireland and indeed representatives of Gaeltacht communities.
And I think as well, and you know, this shouldn't be lost because I'm in the very, happily in the very unique position of representing a constituency that is in Dublin, but also has a significant rural element.
And it's true to say, if you were born in an estate or indeed on an estate, the desire to live in your community is there.
People want to live there.
near their parents, they want to live near the place where they grew up.
That's completely natural.
And that has been very much distorted by the government created housing crisis because people are having to live further and further and further away from their home place, further and further and further away from where they want to raise their family.
If this is the change that is needed to deliver good planning and sustainable planning, then yes.
But at the moment, the way the guidelines are written, they're very vague.
And they do need to have a lot more clarity brought to them.
I mean, for example, they're saying, you know, if you live between three and seven kilometres, well, is it three kilometres?
It's three and ten kilometres.
Three kilometres is a ten.
All of these issues do need to be ironed out.
But there is time.
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