Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, the Deputy would be. We have underpinned this in the Affordable Housing Act as well so the provisions will allow the local authorities, as part of their housing strategies, to identify where the gaps are and it is important that that is done. In the housing delivery plans that are being submitted to me, and must be with me by later this month, they will include affordable, social and private housing. We want them to go further than that and outline where they need owner-occupier. We have issues with a certain concentration or location of designated build-to-rent apartments and build-to-rent developments that there is no owner-occupiers within it and we need local authorities to be able to do that so this is part of the owner-occupier guarantee. We have strengthened it in the Affordable Housing Act as well. It has been further put into the Planning Act and is the first time that owner-occupier is recognised as a form of housing tenure. As Members will know, in the Land Development Agency Act, we have made provision for a base of 50% on State-owned land that will be developed for affordable and at population centres of over 150,000 such as Cork and Dublin there will be 100% social and affordable.