Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The reason I want to comment at this stage is because it directly links to the two previous contributions. I also listened to what Deputy Coppinger said to the Minister. There is probably almost total agreement on this point. I thank the witnesses for making their contributions. In the contributions we heard about sustainable communities and the 10%, and the word "ghetto", with which I have a real problem, was used at one stage. What we built in the past failed the people we built it for, not because it was a mono-tenure development but because we built sprawling developments on the edge of cities and then singularly failed to provide anything at all in terms of a proper development, such as schools, churches, transport, shops and the most basic things that communities need. We seem to be using that now as an absolute mantra to try to stop any new thinking in terms of building. Deputy Coppinger and I do not agree on a lot of things but I was totally caught by her contribution earlier on, which Deputy Ó Broin echoed. To get 10% as 35,000 houses, we would have to build 350,000.