Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Some owners of sites and developers are not registering to avoid that, and financial institutions, including pillar banks, which we have certainly had the chase on it. The delegates might give me some indication on how they see that being rectified. There needs to be some kind of incentive, in the interest of jobs and housing, to try to move on some of these sites. We have this great need on the one hand and on the other hand we have people sitting on these assets, letting them go derelict and not doing anything with them except waiting for the price to go up.

On the reduced development contributions, perhaps the Irish Planning Institute delegates would stay here to comment on this issue. To my mind, something else was pushing up the cost more than development contributions. Development contributions were €4,000 to €6,000, €7,000 or €8,000 but the little plot of land - very small plots of land in many cases - that the house was popped down on was costing up to €40,000, €50,000 and €60,000. For a very small plot, a person was getting in 18 or 19 units to the acre.