Mr. Paul Hogan:

I agree with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae that one cannot restrict zoning to give one land owner the whole hand of cards for a settlement. Another way to look at it would be not to zone any land and just to have a growth restriction on the scale of the settlement. That is a consideration. Looking at the capacity of places, the larger a settlement, the more facilities and amenities it has, in particular if it grew at a certain stage. Leixlip is somewhere that grew largely during the 1970s and 1980s and there are a lot of facilities there. It has reached a certain stage of development. There is scope for further development in a place like that for example. Where a place is growing rapidly, adding more and more pressure to it is not the solution. That is what we are concerned about. It does not mean housing cannot be provided and growth cannot happen. It is that we have to reflect on where the capacity is.