Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The idea of low demand strikes me as a complete lack of ambition by many local authorities to solve the housing crisis. If it is not possible to do it in this decade when numbers were so difficult and if it was not possible to do it in the in the past decade for the same reason, I cannot imagine a time when they would be ambitious. I accept that the authority is effectively dealing with the outcomes of those decisions. I thank the witnesses for their time with us today.