Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Head 83 in section 2(g), which relates to conditions on planning permissions, is about requiring bonds and is connected to the issue of taking in charge. If it is not built to the standard it should, the local authority can have recourse to using the bond. An issue that frequently comes up when it gets to that situation is that local authorities will say there is insufficient money in the bonds to bring the area up to the standard to take it in charge. Is there something that needs to be done on the whole area of bonds? At one of our last meetings, the Construction Industry Federation, CIF, representatives said that they cannot even get bonds now, so they have to hand over cash, which is a higher cost and ultimately can lead to issues around housing affordability.

Does that need to be looked at or does something need to be done there?