Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is a factual question. A number of the local authorities as well as Mr. Brendan Kenny from Dublin City Council have said that past 2021, if they meet all of the social housing output targets, land is going to become a real issue for them. Some local authorities are in a better position than others. My concern is that if we max out all the land on the existing social housing output programme, particularly through Part 8s, infills, etc., and if the Minister sticks to the 10% on the larger-scale sites that are LDA, then we are going to have a big problem post-2021. This will be just in terms of meeting the Minister's own targets, which I believe are too modest in the first place. All I am urging the Minister to do, and we will come back to this in the legislation, is to think very carefully about whether an overall 10% - we will get into an argument as to who does the development at a later stage - is in any way appropriate in terms of his obligations to meet his own targets in the national development plan up to 2040. By my calculations, this is going to hamper the Minister in delivering even those targets.