Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. I would like to ask the Department representatives the question that I had previously put to the board. How many of the 40,000 residential units approved for planning have been delivered? I appreciate what the board has said with regard to the short time span. I am aware the Department has said 29% of permissions have been activated, but I am looking for the number of how many physical homes have been delivered through the SHD process. The objective of the scheme was the faster delivery of houses. I hope one of the representatives can answer that. It would seem to be a primary key performance indicator.

We ran out of time in the previous round and the representatives from the Department did not get an opportunity to answer some of my questions so I will hand the rest of my time over to them. I would like to hear their views on the point I made earlier regarding the "use it or lose it" recommendation. Would bringing that in before the date the scheme is due to expire, rather than as part of a proposed extended version of the scheme, be practical from a technical, legislative and administrative perspective?