Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, what will happen if a local authority writes to the Department stating it has de-zoned land on which it now believes houses might be built? Rural areas are not getting the same attention as the cities, which is fair enough and which I appreciate. Will the Department then look at each local authority individually and decide it has a good case in a particular instance on which houses can be built? If the local authority is able to say it will get houses at that site, will the Department look at the de-zoned lands then?