John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I really enjoyed this session. Returning to the shared equity scheme, I am critical of it and share the ESRI's concerns. We are teasing it out from every angle in my own parliamentary party. I understand the ESRI's concerns. I have seen what has happened internationally. The witnesses will have read the steps the Minister is seeking to take maybe to try to obviate its worst effects.

If there are 30,000 or 40,000 outstanding extant planning permissions available nationally, it has taken a number of years to get to them. They will wither in a number of years if they are not acted on. There might be 10,000 to 15,000 of these in Dublin. I am not trying to be smart when I ask a sincerely motivated question: what other measures could the Government consider to activate those permissions?