PQ 295
295. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in removing the capacity of planning authorities to impose blanket bans on backland and ribbon development, the draft National Planning Statement will introduce any aggregate density ceiling, cumulative impact assessment, or equivalent safeguard to prevent incremental over-development in sensitive or high-amenity rural and Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52523/26]
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295. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in removing the capacity of planning authorities to impose blanket bans on backland and ribbon development, the draft National Planning Statement will introduce any aggregate density ceiling, cumulative impact assessment, or equivalent safeguard to prevent incremental over-development in sensitive or high-amenity rural and Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52523/26]
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