Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Michael O'Flynn:
I think there are two points to that. One is that the overall numbers were out of line with what should have been built. But we built a lot of houses in a lot of places where houses weren't needed. We zoned a lot of land, you know, in a lot of places land was ... shouldn't have been zoned. We put a lot of infrastructure into land, into local authorities where ... to build houses in places where they shouldn't have built houses in the first place. I mean, I've always concentrated on the metropolitans, but I was really, really taken aback by some of the developments that got zoned, and got infrastructure and got planning. You know, you have to have zoning, you have to-----
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