Mr. Michael Cleary:

In terms of local authorities and infrastructure, lands are zoned but not serviced in many instances. There are impediments to getting that servicing in place. It is about facilitating the delivery of infrastructure to allow it to happen. In respect of facilitating development, it is never one solution but rather a variety of them that is required. One solution that has been proposed by our members - this was used in the 1960 and early 1970s - would involve local authorities providing the infrastructure to individual sites and areas of sites, on a large scale, being licensed out to smaller builders who would build a certain section of housing units. Therefore, one has diversity in terms of supply and competition in terms of deliverability yet there is no over-reliance on one or two key large players. That was used to a certain extent in that period and worked quite well. I presume anyone in the room can provide examples of where it did not work well but in the majority of cases, it did work well. We see this as an area where local authorities could play a role in the provision of infrastructure.