Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick:

The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has just revised the guidelines as to what applies in respect of a build to rent model. The guidelines were launched only three to four months ago and are just finding their feet. They are being actively examined. By and large, one must ensure that one has a funder in place who is prepared to fund long term development of these houses and hold them on the books. The regulations and standards have been changed and are under active consideration by a number of parties.

I am conscious we have been told by a whole series of people that we must build roads. They include IBEC and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. They have no public transport project plans at all and their civil engineers will not be working on public transport in this country any time soon. I presume many CIF members are construction companies in the roads sector. That must colour CIF's submission. We are facing complete congestion in our cities. I am very interested in cycling. We do not have any money for cycling infrastructure in Dublin. The situation in similar in Cork, Galway and Limerick. If we are to develop them, we must go to public transport. If all the development is taking place in the cities and we cannot get any roads to solve Dublin's problem, why should we put all our money into yet more roads in respect of inter-urban journeys when our real problem is the fact that our cities are gridlocked? Why should we build roads when we need public transport, cycling, walking and other infrastructure that creates cities that work?