Eoin O Broin: As bill goes before Cabinet, finally, it is time to get planning right

The Oireachtas housing committee made 156 recommendations for change to the Planning and Development Bill. In the coming days, we will see if Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has listened.

Sinn Féin spokesman on housing, Eoin Ó Broin. Picture: Damien Storan.

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien is expected to bring his controversial Planning and Development Bill to Cabinet today.

The big question is whether it will address key problems in our planning system or, like most recent Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil planning legislation, make our planning system worse.