Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My clear understanding of the Bill is that these lands are not covered and the LDA does not seek to require them but I fully understand the Deputy's intentions.

Perhaps the Minister could address the following. One of the things that has caused confusion across many areas is that the LDA has a geomapping facility on its website that identifies land but the way in which this is presented gives the impression that lands which have a certain colour coding may be lands of interest to the LDA. As the Minister will know, because he knows the map as well as I do, lots of those lands are not even zoned for residential use. They are greenfield sites or green sites inside other sites. It is not that I think the LDA has its sights on these lands, but I would like a clarification on the matter in the context of the Minister's response to Deputy Duncan Smith's question. The LDA's website, including that mapping function, needs to be changed in order that only lands that are clearly zoned for residential use would even appear on it. That would clear up a lot of the confusion. I say this just by way of being helpful.