John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On rightsizing, one of the first things the Government did was that the Taoiseach gave many resources to the Office of the Attorney General to look at our planning codes. Is there anything Mr. McLoughlin would like to see on that? He said earlier that county councils do not have the power to determine what a builder might do with the different aspects of a development. The Government gives them the power to allocate 10% or 20% for social and affordable housing. On rightsizing, what can we, as legislators, do when developments are granted permissions, particularly in the suburbs where there is an existing mature population who have empty-nester homes with two or three bedrooms and who will not exercise - why would they - the right to sell and rent, but would exercise the right to sell and trade down? What can legislators do?