Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

For the information of the Department, we will have a second session on this on Thursday and we have invited witnesses from the Construction Industry Federation, the Irish Planning Institute, the County and City Management Association and the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance. We then hope to carry out pre-legislative scrutiny on the general scheme and get the report back to the Department as soon as possible. We are aware of the time constraints on the Bill.

I now invite members to ask questions. We should not comment on live planning applications or strategic housing development applications that are before the courts or at pre-application stages. I ask that we keep the discussion to strategic housing development in principle rather than itemising individual applications that may be out there at present, if members are agreeable to this. We will begin with questions from Fianna Fáil.