Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do too because, like yourself, I have sat here. I am the first Government party speaker and I am not going to be rushed in the final part of my question. I spoke about the build-to-lease programme, NAMA homes and landbanks and now I want to mention the planning review. That is key. We need to look again at fast-track planning. I do not know whether it makes sense. Somebody spoke about reforming Part VIII, but we must see whether we can fast-track the planning in whatever way it can be done.

The last point I would like to make is that Great Britain has a huge public housing supply. There are massive operations in the United Kingdom. What can we learn from the United Kingdom? What wealth of information is there that the Minister could access or get? Perhaps they might have experts on this issue, on rapidly building a significant number of houses. What knowledge is there? What research and information can we get to do this job? After the Second World War, they had a huge public housing construction programme. Maybe there are lessons we can take from that.