Mr. Paul Hogan:

There are significant numbers of extant permissions. Recent data from the Dublin housing supply co-ordination taskforce confirms that right now there now 46,000 units permitted in the four Dublin authorities alone. A lot of those are apartments. Rather than people holding off, there might be an opportunity for some of those units to be redesigned in order to be more viable, in particular at the urban edge. Realistically, people can still come forward with proposals.