Tom Phillips
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367 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And we have people probably listening to the radio whose parents might be objecting to rezoning and they're in their late 20s and early 30s and they can't get a house or afford a house.
So it's about traffic management.
It shouldn't be mixed up.
with the need for rezoning land.
Why housing that the deputy refers to is not being built is partly for a number of reasons but the issue with a lot of the provision of infrastructure is that you need to have that sometimes that certain forms of infrastructure follow development and one of those is public transport that's very rarely they're put in advance so you have to have committed development before Dublin Bus can expand to these areas.
And the big issue is we should be building 300,000.
That's what the government is committed to build in, not in the lifetime of this government, but it'll be the next government when the commitment falls.
It's the 31st of December, 2030.
And we need to be building 300,000 houses, which is 259 houses per working day, excluding weekends, bank holidays, etc.
And we're not doing it.
And the issue is to do with it.
That doesn't happen in the sense that you have to get, there's so many checks and balances.
Planning is so much difficult to get planning permission.
You've got to go to the local authority, then you've got to, inevitably, there's a 95% chance that any housing scheme will go to the, on Commission Panola, formerly known as On Board Panola.
and they have to have huge amount of plans in place that show a social infrastructure audit.
The deputy was making reference to IPAS centres.
IPAS centres can be put in places without a social infrastructure audit.
Housing schemes can't.
A planning consultant and the architect and the developer have to prove that for any scheme that's going forward at the moment, have to show that the correct infrastructure is in place from creches to primary schools to secondary schools.
So those checks and balances, which didn't really exist in the past, are now front and central to all housing schemes.
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