Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

I am not directly familiar with the numbers in Fingal. I am aware of the Dublin housing supply task force and the work it does in assessing the yields on lands and where residentially zoned lands may be own-service. My understanding of issues in Fingal is that some of them relate to network capacity issues. Solutions are in train regarding planning etc. but may not be delivered yet. I do not think it refers to wastewater treatment capacity, for example. It may be localised infrastructural network issues that are required to service those lands. Normally, the provision of services such as trunk sewers would not be within the remit of the landowner or the developer. Those reports state that a piece of infrastructure has to be put in before those lands are made available for development and that is the issue. As to why the figures have not moved or what investment has been undertaken, I am not directly familiar with that.