Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would argue that most of the land bank and land - I would say over 90% of it - was purchased many years before that and the sites being bought in 2003 and 2004 were actually being turned over. They were not being bought to be banked at that time. They were being bought to be developed. I still think the land banking area is a huge potential for the State to move in on, but we need the will to make that happen.