The plan to develop Ireland over the next 20 years will be significantly different to a draft version that many TDs have criticised.
The cabinet is examining the National Planning Framework at a special meeting this evening.
The National Planning Framework sets out a guide for how Ireland will be developed until 2040.
In that time it’s expected an extra million people will be living here, with more than half a million more homes needed.
A draft of the plan has been heavily criticised, including by Sinn Féin’s Eoin O’Broin.
A group of TDs against the draft plan say it will kill rural Ireland.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says they need to be realistic
He says the plan that will be put before cabinet later has been significantly re-drafted to take into account the concerns of rural TDs.
Meanwhile the Clare Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development has dismissed suggestions that the National Planning Framework will leave rural areas behind.
Clarecastle Fine Gael TD Joe Carey has been telling Clare FM’s Fiona Cahill that while some areas within the plan need to be “tweaked”, he believes the county will benefit from it.
