Mr. Niall Cussen:

The Deputy will appreciate that it is not my role to comment on policy and legislation, which are matters for the Oireachtas, including Ministers and so forth. The SHD process was born of a particular context when we were coming out of an economic crash and many planning permissions had passed their expiry dates. It was put in place for a particular purpose. All of this has been well set out in the arguments around the scheme.

I would be happy to look at the Deputy's analysis. If his office is undertaking research, I encourage him to share it with us because we would be curious about it. It is fair to say that the Department, the Minister and his officials have undertaken analysis of the SHD process. There was an independent review, which the Deputy has probably come across. However, I will offer a word of caution, one that is borne out at a practical level, about analysing the commencement rates of small versus large schemes. It would be fair to say that some of the larger schemes involve many more moving parts than smaller ones, particularly in terms of the infrastructural enablements that are needed as well as parallel consents for other aspects, for example, fire safety certificates and so on. The Deputy should bear in mind that they are like apples and oranges. There is a world of difference between commencing a project of ten houses versus one of 1,000 homes.