Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I confirm I am present in Leinster House.

I thank the witnesses for the engagement and advice so far this evening and previously. Some cynically have claimed in published articles that the Land Development Agency will create designated activity companies and enter into investment vehicles with third parties, thereby undermining the affordable housing aspect and pretty much privatising the lands of which the agency will get ownership. In that same article, there were allegations that the agency will not build social housing.

I would welcome the agency elaborating on the mechanism by which third parties will be brought on board, as well as who those third parties will be and where they will come in with a view to affordable and social housing.