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

The fear is that, as Deputy Gould said, for the best part of 11 years, one of the main reasons developments did not happen was that the absence of the tools needed for mixed income and tenure development meant we could only build social housing. Now we will have the tools to do all three, and the fear is that local authorities will not have the ambition that is needed and will leave cost rental to the AHBs and affordable housing to the LDA. That is not the purpose of the Bill. It is very important that there be an aggressive and ambitious target set by local authorities.