The Minister of State with responsibility for Business, Employment and Retail Emer Higgins said she will ask Dublin City Council to pause the plan that is due to come into effect in August. 

It’s because of concerns about the impact it could have on jobs and retail sales in the city. 

But what type of planning goes into these big changes in the city? Conor Skehan is a Sunday Independent Columnist, former Chair of the Housing Agency, Lecturer in Planning at Technological University Dublin and joins Seán to discuss.