Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank both local authorities for being with us today. We want to try to capture how Housing for All is being implemented and what some of the roadblocks might be at a practical level that we can feed back to the Department. I am conscious that much of the legislation is very new. The Affordable Housing Act, for example, is just over 12 months old so I accept some of this is planning for the future.

From an overall perspective, Dublin City Council is quite constrained in terms of land and it talked about a figure of 10,000 between now and 2026. Both local authorities here today do not have that same land constraint but their numbers are lower. Are the two local authorities being ambitious enough with the targets they have been agreed with the Department? Is there far more scope for development on some of those greenfield sites in what are two local authorities with a lot of land?